diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4dd90f3c..8e94a58b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Patch release based on testing by Dave Cornejo, Netgate
   * From a cli perspective this is a revert to 4.1 behaviour, where the cli does not immediately exit on start if the backend is not running, but with the new session-id function
   
 ### Corrected Bugs
+* XML namespace merge bug fixed. Example: two xmlns attributes could both survive a merge whereas one should replace the other.
 * Compile option `VALIDATE_STATE_XML` introduced in `include/custom.h` to control whether code for state data validation is compiled or not. 
 * Fixed: Validation of user state data led to wrong validation, if state relied on config data, eg leafref/must/when etc.
 * Fixed: No revision in yang module led to errors in validation of state data
diff --git a/lib/src/clixon_xml_map.c b/lib/src/clixon_xml_map.c
index 0be80b45..2d822638 100644
--- a/lib/src/clixon_xml_map.c
+++ b/lib/src/clixon_xml_map.c
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ check_namespaces(cxobj *x0, /* source */
     }
     else{ /* No, namespace does not exist in x1 _parent_ 
 	   * Check if it is exists in x1 itself */
-	if (nscache_get_prefix(x1, namespace, &pexist) == 1){
+	if (xml2prefix(x1, namespace, &pexist) == 1){
 	    /* Yes it exists, but is it equal? */
 	    if ((pexist == NULL && prefix0 == NULL) ||
 		(pexist && prefix0 &&