diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/SimplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests.java b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/SimplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import test.beans.ITestBean;
+
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for combining the expression language and the p namespace. This test
+ *
+ * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ */
+public class SimplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests {
+
+	@Test
+	public void combineWithExpressionLanguage() {
+		ApplicationContext applicationContext =
+				new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("simplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests.xml",
+						getClass());
+		ITestBean foo = applicationContext.getBean("foo", ITestBean.class);
+		ITestBean bar = applicationContext.getBean("bar", ITestBean.class);
+		assertEquals("Invalid name", "Baz", foo.getName());
+		assertEquals("Invalid name", "Baz", bar.getName());
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/resources/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/simplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests.xml b/org.springframework.context/src/test/resources/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/simplePropertyNamespaceHandlerWithExpressionLanguageTests.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<bean id="foo" class="test.beans.TestBean" p:name="Baz"/>
+
+	<bean id="bar" class="test.beans.TestBean" p:name="#{foo.name}"/>
+
+</beans>