--- loncom/xml/lonxml.pm	2001/10/05 16:55:12	1.135
+++ loncom/xml/lonxml.pm	2001/11/07 21:26:04	1.138
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ use Apache::scripttag;
 use Apache::edit;
 use Apache::lonnet;
 use Apache::File;
+use Apache::loncommon;
 
 #==================================================   Main subroutine: xmlparse  
 #debugging control, to turn on debugging modify the correct handler
@@ -1007,7 +1008,7 @@ sub handler {
   } else {
     $request->content_type('text/html');
   }
-  
+  &Apache::loncommon::no_cache($request); 
   $request->send_http_header;
   
   return OK if $request->header_only;
@@ -1160,7 +1161,15 @@ sub register_insert {
 
 sub description {
   my ($token)=@_;
-  return $insertlist{$insertlist{"$token->[1].num"}.'.description'};
+  my $tagnum;
+  my $tag=$token->[1];
+  foreach my $namespace (reverse @Apache::lonxml::namespace) {
+    my $testtag=$namespace.'::'.$tag;
+    $tagnum=$insertlist{"$testtag.num"};
+    if (defined($tagnum)) { last; }
+  }
+  if (!defined ($tagnum)) { $tagnum=$Apache::lonxml::insertlist{"$tag.num"}; }
+  return $insertlist{$tagnum.'.description'};
 }
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------- whichuser