diff --git a/Sources/XMLCoder/Auxiliaries/XMLStackParser.swift b/Sources/XMLCoder/Auxiliaries/XMLStackParser.swift
index 066b68f4..499f4450 100644
--- a/Sources/XMLCoder/Auxiliaries/XMLStackParser.swift
+++ b/Sources/XMLCoder/Auxiliaries/XMLStackParser.swift
@@ -12,18 +12,29 @@ class XMLStackParser: NSObject {
     var root: XMLCoderElement?
     private var stack: [XMLCoderElement] = []
 
-    static func parse(with data: Data,
-                      errorContextLength length: UInt) throws -> KeyedBox {
+    static func parse(
+        with data: Data,
+        errorContextLength length: UInt,
+        shouldProcessNamespaces: Bool
+    ) throws -> KeyedBox {
         let parser = XMLStackParser()
 
-        let node = try parser.parse(with: data, errorContextLength: length)
+        let node = try parser.parse(
+            with: data,
+            errorContextLength: length,
+            shouldProcessNamespaces: shouldProcessNamespaces
+        )
 
         return node.flatten()
     }
 
-    func parse(with data: Data,
-               errorContextLength: UInt) throws -> XMLCoderElement {
+    func parse(
+        with data: Data,
+        errorContextLength: UInt,
+        shouldProcessNamespaces: Bool
+    ) throws -> XMLCoderElement {
         let xmlParser = XMLParser(data: data)
+        xmlParser.shouldProcessNamespaces = shouldProcessNamespaces
         xmlParser.delegate = self
 
         guard !xmlParser.parse(), root == nil else {
@@ -92,8 +103,8 @@ extension XMLStackParser: XMLParserDelegate {
 
     func parser(_: XMLParser,
                 didStartElement elementName: String,
-                namespaceURI _: String?,
-                qualifiedName _: String?,
+                namespaceURI: String?,
+                qualifiedName: String?,
                 attributes attributeDict: [String: String] = [:]) {
         let element = XMLCoderElement(key: elementName, attributes: attributeDict)
         stack.append(element)
diff --git a/Sources/XMLCoder/Decoder/XMLDecoder.swift b/Sources/XMLCoder/Decoder/XMLDecoder.swift
index 6b941f69..653c6c54 100644
--- a/Sources/XMLCoder/Decoder/XMLDecoder.swift
+++ b/Sources/XMLCoder/Decoder/XMLDecoder.swift
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ open class XMLDecoder {
     /// span more than a few lines.
     open var errorContextLength: UInt = 0
 
+    /** A boolean value that determines whether the parser reports the
+     namespaces and qualified names of elements. The default value is `false`.
+     */
+    open var shouldProcessNamespaces: Bool = false
+
     /// Options set on the top-level encoder to pass down the decoding hierarchy.
     struct Options {
         let dateDecodingStrategy: DateDecodingStrategy
@@ -283,7 +288,8 @@ open class XMLDecoder {
     ) throws -> T {
         let topLevel: Box = try XMLStackParser.parse(
             with: data,
-            errorContextLength: errorContextLength
+            errorContextLength: errorContextLength,
+            shouldProcessNamespaces: shouldProcessNamespaces
         )
 
         let decoder = XMLDecoderImplementation(referencing: topLevel, options: options)
diff --git a/Tests/XMLCoderTests/Auxiliary/XMLStackParserTests.swift b/Tests/XMLCoderTests/Auxiliary/XMLStackParserTests.swift
index 958f3d1e..b02d4791 100644
--- a/Tests/XMLCoderTests/Auxiliary/XMLStackParserTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/XMLCoderTests/Auxiliary/XMLStackParserTests.swift
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ class XMLStackParserTests: XCTestCase {
             """
         let xmlData = xmlString.data(using: .utf8)!
 
-        let root: XMLCoderElement? = try parser.parse(with: xmlData,
-                                                      errorContextLength: 0)
+        let root: XMLCoderElement? = try parser.parse(
+            with: xmlData,
+            errorContextLength: 0,
+            shouldProcessNamespaces: false
+        )
 
         let expected = XMLCoderElement(
             key: "container",
@@ -46,7 +49,10 @@ class XMLStackParserTests: XCTestCase {
         let xmlString = "lorem ipsum"
         let xmlData = xmlString.data(using: .utf8)!
 
-        XCTAssertThrowsError(try parser.parse(with: xmlData,
-                                              errorContextLength: 0))
+        XCTAssertThrowsError(try parser.parse(
+            with: xmlData,
+            errorContextLength: 0,
+            shouldProcessNamespaces: false
+        ))
     }
 }
diff --git a/Tests/XMLCoderTests/NamespaceTest.swift b/Tests/XMLCoderTests/NamespaceTest.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0360e9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/XMLCoderTests/NamespaceTest.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+//
+//  NamespaceTest.swift
+//  XMLCoder
+//
+//  Created by Max Desiatov on 27/02/2019.
+//
+
+import Foundation
+import XCTest
+@testable import XMLCoder
+
+private let xmlData = """
+<h:table xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/">
+  <h:tr>
+    <h:td>Apples</h:td>
+    <h:td>Bananas</h:td>
+  </h:tr>
+</h:table>
+""".data(using: .utf8)!
+
+private struct Table: Codable, Equatable {
+    struct TR: Codable, Equatable {
+        let td: [String]
+    }
+
+    let tr: TR
+}
+
+class NameSpaceTest: XCTestCase {
+    func testDecoder() throws {
+        let decoder = XMLDecoder()
+        decoder.shouldProcessNamespaces = true
+
+        let decoded = try decoder.decode(Table.self, from: xmlData)
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(decoded, Table(tr: .init(td: ["Apples", "Bananas"])))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/XMLCoder.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/XMLCoder.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index 33627d76..4a8f642d 100644
--- a/XMLCoder.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/XMLCoder.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 		D14D8A8621F1D6B300B0D31A /* SingleChildTests.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D14D8A8521F1D6B300B0D31A /* SingleChildTests.swift */; };
 		D162674321F9B2AF0056D1D8 /* OptionalTests.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D162674121F9B2850056D1D8 /* OptionalTests.swift */; };
 		D1CB1EF521EA9599009CAF02 /* RJITest.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = OBJ_37 /* RJITest.swift */; };
+		D1CFC8242226B13F00B03222 /* NamespaceTest.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D1CFC8222226AFB400B03222 /* NamespaceTest.swift */; };
 		D1E0C85321D8E65E0042A261 /* ErrorContextTest.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D1E0C85121D8E6540042A261 /* ErrorContextTest.swift */; };
 		D1E0C85521D91EBF0042A261 /* Metatypes.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D1E0C85421D91EBF0042A261 /* Metatypes.swift */; };
 		D1FC040521C7EF8200065B43 /* RJISample.swift in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = D1FC040421C7EF8200065B43 /* RJISample.swift */; };
@@ -198,6 +199,7 @@
 		D11979B721F5EA5400A9C574 /* XMLCoder.podspec */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; fileEncoding = 4; lastKnownFileType = text; path = XMLCoder.podspec; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		D14D8A8521F1D6B300B0D31A /* SingleChildTests.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = SingleChildTests.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		D162674121F9B2850056D1D8 /* OptionalTests.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = OptionalTests.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
+		D1CFC8222226AFB400B03222 /* NamespaceTest.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = NamespaceTest.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		D1E0C85121D8E6540042A261 /* ErrorContextTest.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; fileEncoding = 4; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = ErrorContextTest.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		D1E0C85421D91EBF0042A261 /* Metatypes.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = Metatypes.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
 		D1FC040421C7EF8200065B43 /* RJISample.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = RJISample.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };
@@ -384,6 +386,7 @@
 				B3BE1D602202C1F600259831 /* DynamicNodeEncodingTest.swift */,
 				A61DCCD621DF8DB300C0A19D /* ClassTests.swift */,
 				D14D8A8521F1D6B300B0D31A /* SingleChildTests.swift */,
+				D1CFC8222226AFB400B03222 /* NamespaceTest.swift */,
 			);
 			name = XMLCoderTests;
 			path = Tests/XMLCoderTests;
@@ -625,6 +628,7 @@
 				D1FC040521C7EF8200065B43 /* RJISample.swift in Sources */,
 				BF63EF0A21CD7C1A001D38C5 /* URLTests.swift in Sources */,
 				BF9457CE21CBB516005ACFDE /* StringBoxTests.swift in Sources */,
+				D1CFC8242226B13F00B03222 /* NamespaceTest.swift in Sources */,
 				BF9457D021CBB516005ACFDE /* UIntBoxTests.swift in Sources */,
 				OBJ_80 /* BooksTest.swift in Sources */,
 				OBJ_81 /* BreakfastTest.swift in Sources */,