diff --git a/smack-xmlparser-stax/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/xml/stax/StaxXmlPullParser.java b/smack-xmlparser-stax/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/xml/stax/StaxXmlPullParser.java
index 56542fc97..10f3453eb 100644
--- a/smack-xmlparser-stax/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/xml/stax/StaxXmlPullParser.java
+++ b/smack-xmlparser-stax/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/xml/stax/StaxXmlPullParser.java
@@ -108,9 +108,8 @@ public final class StaxXmlPullParser implements XmlPullParser {
 
     @Override
     public String getNamespace() {
-        NamespaceContext namespaceContext = xmlStreamReader.getNamespaceContext();
         String prefix = getPrefix();
-        return namespaceContext.getNamespaceURI(prefix);
+        return getNamespace(prefix);
     }
 
     @Override