diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+#### 1.2.0.1
+
+* Get rid of xmlns:ns and ns:-prefixed attributes that confused some applications, thanks to Tomas Janousek.
+* GHC 8.8 support
+
 ## 1.2.0.0
 
 Updated `EntryContent`'s `HTMLContent` to wrap an `XML.Element` instead of `Text`. Thanks to Jake Keuhlen.
diff --git a/README.lhs b/README.lhs
--- a/README.lhs
+++ b/README.lhs
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 > renderFeed myFeed
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-  <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Example Website</title>
+  <title type="text">Example Website</title>
   <id>http://example.com/atom.xml</id>
   <updated>2017-08-01</updated>
 </feed>
@@ -124,29 +124,29 @@
 > renderFeed feed
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-  <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Example Website</title>
+  <title type="text">Example Website</title>
   <id>http://example.com/atom.xml</id>
   <updated>2017-08-01</updated>
-  <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/"/>
+  <link href="http://example.com/"/>
   <entry>
     <id>http://example.com/2</id>
-    <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Bar.</title>
+    <title type="text">Bar.</title>
     <updated>2000-02-02T18:30:00Z</updated>
     <author>
       <name>J. Smith</name>
     </author>
-    <content xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="html">Bar.</content>
-    <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/2"/>
+    <content type="text">Bar.</content>
+    <link href="http://example.com/2"/>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <id>http://example.com/1</id>
-    <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Foo.</title>
+    <title type="text">Foo.</title>
     <updated>2000-01-01T18:30:00Z</updated>
     <author>
       <name>J. Smith</name>
     </author>
-    <content xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="html">Foo.</content>
-    <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/1"/>
+    <content type="text">Foo.</content>
+    <link href="http://example.com/1"/>
   </entry>
 </feed>
 ```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 > renderFeed myFeed
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-  <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Example Website</title>
+  <title type="text">Example Website</title>
   <id>http://example.com/atom.xml</id>
   <updated>2017-08-01</updated>
 </feed>
@@ -124,29 +124,29 @@
 > renderFeed feed
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-  <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Example Website</title>
+  <title type="text">Example Website</title>
   <id>http://example.com/atom.xml</id>
   <updated>2017-08-01</updated>
-  <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/"/>
+  <link href="http://example.com/"/>
   <entry>
     <id>http://example.com/2</id>
-    <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Bar.</title>
+    <title type="text">Bar.</title>
     <updated>2000-02-02T18:30:00Z</updated>
     <author>
       <name>J. Smith</name>
     </author>
-    <content xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="html">Bar.</content>
-    <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/2"/>
+    <content type="text">Bar.</content>
+    <link href="http://example.com/2"/>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <id>http://example.com/1</id>
-    <title xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="text">Foo.</title>
+    <title type="text">Foo.</title>
     <updated>2000-01-01T18:30:00Z</updated>
     <author>
       <name>J. Smith</name>
     </author>
-    <content xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:type="html">Foo.</content>
-    <link xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ns:href="http://example.com/1"/>
+    <content type="text">Foo.</content>
+    <link href="http://example.com/1"/>
   </entry>
 </feed>
 ```
diff --git a/feed.cabal b/feed.cabal
--- a/feed.cabal
+++ b/feed.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                feed
-version:             1.2.0.0
+version:             1.2.0.1
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 category:            Text
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
   , GHC == 8.0.2
   , GHC == 8.2.2
   , GHC == 8.4.4
-  , GHC == 8.6.4
+  , GHC == 8.6.5
+  , GHC == 8.8.1
 data-files:
   tests/files/*.xml
 extra-source-files:
@@ -75,14 +76,14 @@
     Data.Text.Util
     Data.XML.Compat
   build-depends:
-      base >= 4 && < 4.13
-    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.11
+      base >= 4 && < 4.14
+    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.12
     , bytestring >= 0.9 && < 0.11
     , old-locale == 1.0.*
     , old-time >= 1 && < 1.2
     , safe == 0.3.*
     , text < 1.3
-    , time < 1.9
+    , time < 1.10
     , time-locale-compat == 0.1.*
     , utf8-string < 1.1
     , xml-types >= 0.3.6 && < 0.4
@@ -108,15 +109,15 @@
     Text.RSS.Tests
     Text.RSS.Utils
   build-depends:
-      base >= 4 && < 4.13
-    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.11
+      base >= 4 && < 4.14
+    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.12
     , HUnit >= 1.2 && < 1.7
     , feed
     , old-time >= 1 && < 1.2
     , test-framework == 0.8.*
     , test-framework-hunit == 0.3.*
     , text < 1.3
-    , time < 1.9
+    , time < 1.10
     , xml-types >= 0.3.6 && < 0.4
     , xml-conduit >= 1.3 && < 1.10
 
@@ -128,8 +129,8 @@
     OverloadedStrings
   type:              exitcode-stdio-1.0
   build-depends:
-      base >= 4 && < 4.13
-    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.11
+      base >= 4 && < 4.14
+    , base-compat >= 0.9 && < 0.12
     , text
     , xml-types
     , feed
diff --git a/src/Text/Atom/Feed/Export.hs b/src/Text/Atom/Feed/Export.hs
--- a/src/Text/Atom/Feed/Export.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Atom/Feed/Export.hs
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 atomName nc = Name {nameLocalName = nc, nameNamespace = Just atomNS, namePrefix = atom_prefix}
 
 atomAttr :: Text -> Text -> Attr
-atomAttr x y = (atomName x, [ContentText y])
+atomAttr x y = (Name {nameLocalName = x, nameNamespace = Nothing, namePrefix = atom_prefix}, [ContentText y])
 
 atomNode :: Text -> [Node] -> XML.Element
 atomNode x = blank_element (atomName x)