diff --git a/mdx/uk/generate.xml b/mdx/uk/generate.xml
index dd1348c9..ef475151 100644
--- a/mdx/uk/generate.xml
+++ b/mdx/uk/generate.xml
@@ -214,6 +214,15 @@
         </property>
     </bean>
     
+    <bean id="uk_normaliseFallback" parent="xslt_parent"
+        p:id="uk_normaliseFallback">
+        <property name="xslResource">
+            <bean parent="file_parent">
+                <constructor-arg value="#{ systemProperties['basedir'] }/mdx/uk/ns_norm_back.xsl"/>
+            </bean>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+    
     <bean id="serializeUnsignedFallbackAggregate" parent="serialize_parent"
         p:id="serializeUnsignedFallbackAggregate">
         <property name="outputFile">
@@ -231,7 +240,7 @@
                 <ref bean="stripMdrpiNamespace"/>
                 <ref bean="uk_addTrustRoots"/>
                 <ref bean="uk_finaliseFallback"/>
-                <ref bean="uk_normaliseNamespaces"/>
+                <ref bean="uk_normaliseFallback"/>
                 
                 <!-- fallback aggregate MUST pass publishability test -->
                 <ref bean="uk_checkPublishable"/>
diff --git a/mdx/uk/ns_norm_back.xsl b/mdx/uk/ns_norm_back.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7544e4b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdx/uk/ns_norm_back.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+	ns_norm_back.xsl
+	
+	Normalise the namespaces in the UK federation fallback aggregate.
+	
+	The main constraint on the output of this transform is that it should minimise the size
+	of the output file while not having "too many" namespace prefix definitions in scope
+	at any point in the document.  "Too many" is more than about ten, as a result of a bug
+	in the metadatatool application used by Shibboleth 1.3 IdPs to download and verify
+	metadata.
+	
+	The strategy is to define the most commonly-used prefixes in the document element.
+	
+	Prefixes which are less often used, but which may be used by container elements
+	(e.g., mdui:) or for attributes are normalised to use a prefix, but not declared
+	on the document element.
+	
+	Prefixes which are less often used and are only used for non-containers can be
+	normalised to non-prefix use (i.e., to redefine the default namespace) if required
+	to cut the numbers down.
+	
+	Author: Ian A. Young <ian@iay.org.uk>
+
+-->
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+	xmlns:alg="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:algsupport"
+	xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
+	xmlns:elab="http://eduserv.org.uk/labels"
+	xmlns:idpdisc="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:profiles:SSO:idp-discovery-protocol"
+	xmlns:init="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:profiles:SSO:request-init"
+	xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
+	xmlns:mdattr="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:attribute"
+	xmlns:mdrpi="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:rpi"
+	xmlns:mdui="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:ui"
+	xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"
+	xmlns:shibmd="urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0"
+	xmlns:ukfedlabel="http://ukfederation.org.uk/2006/11/label"
+	xmlns:wayf="http://sdss.ac.uk/2006/06/WAYF"
+	
+	exclude-result-prefixes="alg md mdattr mdrpi saml"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+	xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">
+
+
+	<!--
+		Import templates for basic normalisation.
+	-->
+	<xsl:import href="../ns_norm.xsl"/>
+	
+
+	<!--
+		Force UTF-8 encoding for the output.
+	-->
+	<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"/>
+	
+
+	<!--
+		*******************************************
+		***                                     ***
+		***   D O C U M E N T   E L E M E N T   ***
+		***                                     ***
+		*******************************************
+	-->
+	
+	
+	<!--
+		We need to handle the document element specially in order to arrange
+		for all appropriate namespace prefix definitions to appear on it.
+		
+		There are only two possible document elements in SAML metadata.
+	-->
+	
+	
+	<!--
+		Document element is <EntityDescriptor>.
+	-->
+	<xsl:template match="/md:EntityDescriptor">
+		<EntityDescriptor>
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
+		</EntityDescriptor>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	<!--
+		Document element is <EntitiesDescriptor>.
+	-->
+	<xsl:template match="/md:EntitiesDescriptor">
+		<EntitiesDescriptor>
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
+		</EntitiesDescriptor>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	
+	<!--
+		*************************************
+		***                               ***
+		***   A L G   N A M E S P A C E   ***
+		***                               ***
+		*************************************
+	-->
+	
+	
+	<!--
+		alg:*
+		
+		Normalise namespace to not use a prefix.
+	-->
+	<xsl:template match="alg:*">
+		<xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:metadata:algsupport">
+			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
+		</xsl:element>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	
+</xsl:stylesheet>