diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 1eebeb0d1..0d5075e90 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta6" date="2012-??-??">
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52649 - fixed namespace issue in WordToFoConverter</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52385 - avoid trancated array and vector data when reading OLE properties</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52662 - CharacterRun NPE fix when fetching symbol fonts, where no fonts are defined</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">52658 - support mergin table cells in XSLF</action>
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/FoDocumentFacade.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/FoDocumentFacade.java
index 0f2d7de47..a60eb8903 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/FoDocumentFacade.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/converter/FoDocumentFacade.java
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ public class FoDocumentFacade
 
         // See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/metadata.html
 
-        Element xmpmeta = document.createElementNS( "adobe:ns:meta",
+        Element xmpmeta = document.createElementNS( "adobe:ns:meta/",
                 "x:xmpmeta" );
         declarations.appendChild( xmpmeta );