diff --git a/plugins/removeUnusedNS.js b/plugins/removeUnusedNS.js
index c4787915..db0df760 100644
--- a/plugins/removeUnusedNS.js
+++ b/plugins/removeUnusedNS.js
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ exports.fn = function(data) {
                     svgElem = item;
                 }
 
-            } else if (xmlnsCollection.length) {
+            }
+
+            if (xmlnsCollection.length) {
 
                 // check item for the ns-attrs
                 if (item.prefix) {
diff --git a/test/plugins/removeUnusedNS.07.svg b/test/plugins/removeUnusedNS.07.svg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ee5350a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/plugins/removeUnusedNS.07.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" inkscape:version="0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06)" sodipodi:docname="test.svg" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd">
+    test
+</svg>
+
+@@@
+
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" inkscape:version="0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06)" sodipodi:docname="test.svg" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd">
+    test
+</svg>