diff --git a/doc/index.xml b/doc/index.xml
index 4675609..33fc17b 100644
--- a/doc/index.xml
+++ b/doc/index.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@
         
       STP, an alternative to DOM
     </p>
+    <p>
+      &#x2b17;&#160;
+      <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/closure/closure-html/">Closure
+      HTML</a>: cxml can be used together with its sister project
+      Closure HTML to convert between HTML and XHTML.
+    </p>
 
 
     <a name="changes"/>
@@ -65,6 +71,15 @@
     </div>
     <p class="nomargin"><tt>rel-2007-xx-yy</tt></p>
     <ul class="nomargin">
+      <li>
+	Moved runes into a separate project.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+	Incompatible SAX changes: Added new classes
+	sax:abstract-handler, sax:content-handler, sax:default-handler.
+	Implementations of SAX handlers should now subclass one of
+	these classes.
+      </li>
       <li>
 	fixed make-source :buffering nil, thanks to Magnus Henoch for
 	the report
diff --git a/doc/sax.xml b/doc/sax.xml
index a0c8103..ba66303 100644
--- a/doc/sax.xml
+++ b/doc/sax.xml
@@ -79,13 +79,11 @@
 	<ul>
 	  <li>
 	    <tt>pathname</tt> -- a Common Lisp pathname.  
-	    Open the file specified by the pathname and create a source for
-	    the resulting stream.  See below for information on how to
-            close the stream.
+	    Open the file specified by the pathname and parse its
+	    contents as an XML document. 
 	  </li>
 	  <li><tt>stream</tt> -- a Common Lisp stream with element-type
-            <tt>(unsigned-byte 8)</tt>.  See below for information on how to
-            close the stream.
+            <tt>(unsigned-byte 8)</tt>.
 	  </li>
 	  <li>
 	    <tt>octets</tt> -- an <tt>(unsigned-byte 8)</tt> array.
diff --git a/xml/sax-handler.lisp b/xml/sax-handler.lisp
index 0c3f958..9e71e1a 100644
--- a/xml/sax-handler.lisp
+++ b/xml/sax-handler.lisp
@@ -291,9 +291,9 @@ Setting this variable has no effect unless both
 		  nil)
 		(:method ((handler t) ,@args)
 		  (declare (ignore ,@args))
-		  (error "deprecated SAX default method used by a handler ~
-                          that is not a subclass of SAX:ABSTRACT-HANDLER ~
-                          or HAX:ABSTRACT-HANDLER")
+		  (warn "deprecated SAX default method used by a handler ~
+                         that is not a subclass of SAX:ABSTRACT-HANDLER ~
+                         or HAX:ABSTRACT-HANDLER")
 		  nil)
 		(:method ((handler abstract-handler) ,@args)
 		  (declare (ignore ,@args))
@@ -311,6 +311,11 @@ Setting this variable has no effect unless both
 
   (define-event (start-element default-handler)
       (namespace-uri local-name qname attributes)
+    (setf attributes
+	  (remove "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"
+		  attributes
+		  :key #'attribute-namespace-uri
+		  :test #'equal))
     (hax:start-element handler local-name attributes))
 
   (define-event (start-prefix-mapping content-handler)