XPath doesn't support the concept of a default namespace. Any unprefixed tag is always assumed to be part of the no-name namespace.
I had a similiar problem, but mine was that I had a mixture of XML inputs, some of which had a namespace defined and others that didn't. To simplify my problem I ran the following JDOM snippet after loading the document.
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