diff --git a/src/xmpp/stream.go b/src/xmpp/stream.go
index d1b37b1..d0c80f1 100644
--- a/src/xmpp/stream.go
+++ b/src/xmpp/stream.go
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ const (
 type Stream struct {
 	conn net.Conn
 	dec *xml.Decoder
+	stanzaBuf string
+	incomingNamespace nsMap
 }
 
 // Create a XML stream connection. A Steam is used by an XMPP instance to
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ func NewStream(addr string) (*Stream, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	stream := &Stream{conn, xml.NewDecoder(conn)}
+	stream := &Stream{conn: conn, dec: xml.NewDecoder(conn)}
 
 	if err := stream.send([]byte("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>")); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -67,7 +69,22 @@ func (stream *Stream) SendStart(start *xml.StartElement) (*xml.StartElement, err
 	}
 
 	// Read and return start of incoming doc.
-	return nextStartElement(stream.dec)
+	rstart, err := nextStartElement(stream.dec)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// Collect top-level namespaces.
+	stream.incomingNamespace = make(nsMap)
+	for _, attr := range rstart.Attr {
+		if attr.Name.Space == "xmlns" {
+			stream.incomingNamespace[attr.Value] = attr.Name.Local
+		} else if attr.Name.Space == "" && attr.Name.Local == "xmlns" {
+			stream.incomingNamespace[attr.Value] = ""
+		}
+	}
+
+	return rstart, nil
 }
 
 // Send a stanza. Used to write a complete, top-level element.
@@ -92,13 +109,23 @@ func (stream *Stream) send(b []byte) error {
 // Bad things are very likely to happen if a call to Next() is successful but
 // you don't actually decode or skip the element.
 func (stream *Stream) Next(match *xml.Name) (*xml.StartElement, error) {
+
 	start, err := nextStartElement(stream.dec)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+
+	if xml, err := collectElement(stream.dec, start, stream.incomingNamespace); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	} else {
+		stream.stanzaBuf = xml
+	}
+	log.Println("recv:", stream.stanzaBuf)
+
 	if match != nil && start.Name != *match {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Expected %s, got %s", *match, start.Name)
 	}
+
 	return start, nil
 }
 
@@ -125,7 +152,8 @@ func nextStartElement(dec *xml.Decoder) (*xml.StartElement, error) {
 // Skip reads tokens until it reaches the end element of the most recent start
 // element that has already been read.
 func (stream *Stream) Skip() error {
-	return stream.dec.Skip()
+	return nil
+//	return stream.dec.Skip()
 }
 
 // Decode the next stanza. Works like xml.Unmarshal but reads from the stream's
@@ -138,7 +166,8 @@ func (stream *Stream) Decode(v interface{}) error {
 // xml.Decoder.DecodeElement.
 func (stream *Stream) DecodeElement(v interface{}, start *xml.StartElement) error {
 
-	// Explicity lookup next start element to ensure stream is validated.
+	// Explicity lookup next start element to ensure stream is validated,
+	// stanza is logged, etc.
 	if start == nil {
 		if se, err := stream.Next(nil); err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -147,5 +176,57 @@ func (stream *Stream) DecodeElement(v interface{}, start *xml.StartElement) erro
 		}
 	}
 
-	return stream.dec.DecodeElement(v, start)
+	return xml.Unmarshal([]byte(stream.stanzaBuf), v)
+//	return stream.dec.DecodeElement(v, start)
+}
+
+// Collect the element with the start that's already been consumed into a
+// buffer. Namespaces are munged so the buffer can be correctly parsed outside
+// the context of the stream. This is used for logging the received data.
+func collectElement(dec *xml.Decoder, start *xml.StartElement, nsmap nsMap) (string, error) {
+
+	var collector struct {
+		XML []byte `xml:",innerxml"`
+	}
+
+	if err := dec.DecodeElement(&collector, start); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	name := start.Name
+	attrs := start.Attr
+
+	// Map the element's namespace.
+	if ns, ok := nsmap[name.Space]; ok {
+		// Element's namespace is one of the stream namespaces. Update the
+		// element's namespace and add the namespace to the element's attrs.
+		attrs = append(attrs, xml.Attr{xml.Name{"xmlns", ns}, name.Space})
+		name = xml.Name{ns, name.Local}
+	} else {
+		// Check that Go's xml package hasn't duplicated the default ns as the
+		// element name's space. If so, clear it.
+		for _, attr := range attrs {
+			if attr.Name == (xml.Name{"", "xmlns"}) {
+				if name.Space == attr.Value {
+					name = xml.Name{"", start.Name.Local}
+				}
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	start = &xml.StartElement{name, attrs}
+
+	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+	if err := writeXMLStartElement(buf, start); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if _, err := buf.Write(collector.XML); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if err := writeXMLEndElement(buf, &xml.EndElement{start.Name}); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	return buf.String(), nil
 }
diff --git a/src/xmpp/xml.go b/src/xmpp/xml.go
index d8e22a6..fbbb9c8 100644
--- a/src/xmpp/xml.go
+++ b/src/xmpp/xml.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"io"
 )
 
+type nsMap map[string]string
+
 // Write an xml.StartElement.
 func writeXMLStartElement(w io.Writer, start *xml.StartElement) error {
 	if _, err := w.Write([]byte{'<'}); err != nil {
@@ -28,6 +30,20 @@ func writeXMLStartElement(w io.Writer, start *xml.StartElement) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Write an xml.StartElement.
+func writeXMLEndElement(w io.Writer, end *xml.EndElement) error {
+	if _, err := w.Write([]byte{'<', '/'}); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := writeXMLName(w, end.Name); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := w.Write([]byte{'>'}); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Write a xml.Name.
 func writeXMLName(w io.Writer, name xml.Name) error {
 	if name.Space == "" {