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+object Test extends App {
+  import reflect.runtime.universe._ // not using the XML library in compiler tests
+
+  def show(code: String, t: Tree) = println(s"\n$code\n$t")
+
+  val ns1 = "ns1"
+  show("<sample xmlns='ns1'/>", q"<sample xmlns='ns1'/>")
+  show("<sample xmlns={identity(ns1)}/>", q"<sample xmlns={ns1}/>")
+  show("<sample xmlns:foo='ns1'/>", q"<sample xmlns:foo='ns1'/>")
+  show("<sample xmlns:foo={identity(ns1)}/>", q"<sample xmlns:foo={ns1}/>")
+
+  // `identity(foo)` used to match the overly permissive match in SymbolXMLBuilder
+  // which was intented to more specifically match `_root_.scala.xml.Text(...)`
+}