Index: src/org/jboss/tools/vpe/html/template/HtmlTemplate.java
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--- src/org/jboss/tools/vpe/html/template/HtmlTemplate.java	(revision 0)
+++ src/org/jboss/tools/vpe/html/template/HtmlTemplate.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package org.jboss.tools.vpe.html.template;
+
+import org.jboss.tools.vpe.editor.context.VpePageContext;
+import org.jboss.tools.vpe.editor.template.VpeAbstractTemplate;
+import org.jboss.tools.vpe.editor.template.VpeCreationData;
+import org.jboss.tools.vpe.editor.util.HTML;
+import org.mozilla.interfaces.nsIDOMDocument;
+import org.mozilla.interfaces.nsIDOMElement;
+import org.mozilla.interfaces.nsIDOMNode;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+public class HtmlTemplate extends VpeAbstractTemplate {
+	
+	private static final String XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE = "xmlns"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	@Override
+	public VpeCreationData create(VpePageContext pageContext, Node sourceNode,
+			nsIDOMDocument visualDocument) {		
+		copyXmlnsAttribute(sourceNode, visualDocument);		
+		nsIDOMNode divElement = visualDocument.createElement(HTML.TAG_DIV);
+		return new VpeCreationData(divElement);
+	}
+	
+	private void copyXmlnsAttribute(Node sourceNode, nsIDOMDocument visualDocument) {
+		Element  htmlElement = (Element) sourceNode;
+		if (htmlElement.hasAttribute(XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE)) {
+			String xmlnsAttr = htmlElement.getAttribute(XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE);
+			nsIDOMNode htmlNode = visualDocument.getElementsByTagName(HTML.TAG_HTML).item(0);
+			nsIDOMElement htmlEl = (nsIDOMElement)htmlNode.queryInterface(nsIDOMElement.NS_IDOMELEMENT_IID);
+			htmlEl.setAttribute(XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE, xmlnsAttr);
+		}
+	}
+
+}
Index: templates/vpe-templates-html.xml
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--- templates/vpe-templates-html.xml	(revision 33910)
+++ templates/vpe-templates-html.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1153,8 +1153,7 @@
 	</vpe:tag>
 
 	<vpe:tag name="html" case-sensitive="no">
-		<vpe:template children="yes" modify="yes">
-			<div/>
+		<vpe:template children="yes" modify="yes" class="org.jboss.tools.vpe.html.template.HtmlTemplate">
 			<vpe:dnd>
 				<vpe:drop container="yes" />
 			</vpe:dnd>