diff --git a/src/main/java/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/html/dom/HTMLDocumentImpl.java b/src/main/java/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/html/dom/HTMLDocumentImpl.java
index de2f6e05..0560fe53 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/html/dom/HTMLDocumentImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/html/dom/HTMLDocumentImpl.java
@@ -503,10 +503,18 @@ public Element createElementNS(final String namespaceURI, final String qualified
     @Override
     public Element createElementNS(final String namespaceURI, final String qualifiedname) {
         if (namespaceURI == null
-                || namespaceURI.length() == 0
-                || NamespaceBinder.XHTML_1_0_URI.equals(namespaceURI)) {
+                || namespaceURI.length() == 0) {
             return createElement(qualifiedname);
         }
+
+        if (NamespaceBinder.XHTML_1_0_URI.equals(namespaceURI)) {
+            final int index = qualifiedname.indexOf(':');
+            if (index != -1) {
+                return createElement(qualifiedname.substring(index + 1));
+            }
+            return createElement(qualifiedname);
+        }
+
         return super.createElementNS(namespaceURI, qualifiedname);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/testfiles/canonical/test082.html.canonical-domhtml b/src/test/resources/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/testfiles/canonical/test082.html.canonical-domhtml
index d2d4b35d..8b7bc00b 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/testfiles/canonical/test082.html.canonical-domhtml
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/htmlunit/cyberneko/testfiles/canonical/test082.html.canonical-domhtml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 (HTML
 (HEAD
 )HEAD
-(H:BODY
+(BODY
 A{http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/}xmlns:h http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
-)H:BODY
+)BODY
 )HTML