The namespace stuff seems to work, and it's definitely an improvement on the status quo, so in it goes.

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diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
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--- a/NEWS.txt
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+= 4.0.0b8 () =
+
+* All tree builders now preserve namespace information in the
+  documents they parse.
+
+  However, there is no special support for namespace-oriented
+  searching or tree manipulation. When you search the tree, you need
+  to use namespace prefixes exactly as they're used in the original
+  document.
+
+* The string representation of a DOCTYPE always ends in a newline.
+
 = 4.0.0b7 (20110223) =
 
 * Upon decoding to string, any characters that can't be represented in