diff --git "a/C:\\Users\\jmo\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\qxmlstream-5d276d6.001.cpp" "b/D:\\qt512\\qt5\\qtbase\\src\\corelib\\serialization\\qxmlstream.cpp"
index 827996ee2d..6f1c3b1d15 100644
--- "a/C:\\Users\\jmo\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\TortoiseGit\\qxmlstream-5d276d6.001.cpp"
+++ "b/D:\\qt512\\qt5\\qtbase\\src\\corelib\\serialization\\qxmlstream.cpp"
@@ -3001,6 +3001,7 @@ public:
 #endif
     void checkIfASCIICompatibleCodec();
 
+    NamespaceDeclaration &addExtraNamespace(const QString &namespaceUri, const QString &prefix);
     NamespaceDeclaration &findNamespace(const QString &namespaceUri, bool writeDeclaration = false, bool noDefault = false);
     void writeNamespaceDeclaration(const NamespaceDeclaration &namespaceDeclaration);
 
@@ -3197,6 +3198,16 @@ bool QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::finishStartElement(bool contents)
     return hadSomethingWritten;
 }
 
+QXmlStreamPrivateTagStack::NamespaceDeclaration & QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::addExtraNamespace(const QString &namespaceUri, const QString &prefix)
+{
+    Q_ASSERT(!((prefix == QLatin1String("xml")) ^ (namespaceUri == QLatin1String("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"))));
+    Q_ASSERT(namespaceUri != QLatin1String("http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"));
+    QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::NamespaceDeclaration &namespaceDeclaration = namespaceDeclarations.push();
+    namespaceDeclaration.prefix = addToStringStorage(prefix);
+    namespaceDeclaration.namespaceUri = addToStringStorage(namespaceUri);
+    return namespaceDeclaration;
+}
+
 QXmlStreamPrivateTagStack::NamespaceDeclaration &QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::findNamespace(const QString &namespaceUri, bool writeDeclaration, bool noDefault)
 {
     for (int j = namespaceDeclarations.size() - 1; j >= 0; --j) {
@@ -3767,11 +3778,7 @@ void QXmlStreamWriter::writeNamespace(const QString &namespaceUri, const QString
     if (prefix.isEmpty()) {
         d->findNamespace(namespaceUri, d->inStartElement);
     } else {
-        Q_ASSERT(!((prefix == QLatin1String("xml")) ^ (namespaceUri == QLatin1String("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"))));
-        Q_ASSERT(namespaceUri != QLatin1String("http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"));
-        QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::NamespaceDeclaration &namespaceDeclaration = d->namespaceDeclarations.push();
-        namespaceDeclaration.prefix = d->addToStringStorage(prefix);
-        namespaceDeclaration.namespaceUri = d->addToStringStorage(namespaceUri);
+        QXmlStreamWriterPrivate::NamespaceDeclaration &namespaceDeclaration =  d->addExtraNamespace(namespaceUri, prefix);
         if (d->inStartElement)
             d->writeNamespaceDeclaration(namespaceDeclaration);
     }
@@ -3958,13 +3965,14 @@ void QXmlStreamWriter::writeCurrentToken(const QXmlStreamReader &reader)
         writeEndDocument();
         break;
     case QXmlStreamReader::StartElement: {
-        writeStartElement(reader.namespaceUri().toString(), reader.name().toString());
+        Q_D(QXmlStreamWriter);
         QXmlStreamNamespaceDeclarations namespaceDeclarations = reader.namespaceDeclarations();
         for (int i = 0; i < namespaceDeclarations.size(); ++i) {
             const QXmlStreamNamespaceDeclaration &namespaceDeclaration = namespaceDeclarations.at(i);
-            writeNamespace(namespaceDeclaration.namespaceUri().toString(),
+            d->addExtraNamespace(namespaceDeclaration.namespaceUri().toString(),
                            namespaceDeclaration.prefix().toString());
         }
+        writeStartElement(reader.namespaceUri().toString(), reader.name().toString());
         writeAttributes(reader.attributes());
              } break;
     case QXmlStreamReader::EndElement: