diff --git a/src/Schema/Schema.php b/src/Schema/Schema.php
index 1c6d22a2..2a86dcfc 100644
--- a/src/Schema/Schema.php
+++ b/src/Schema/Schema.php
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ protected function findSomethingNoThrow(
             return $this->typeCache[$cid];
         }
 
-        if ($this->getTargetNamespace() === $namespace) {
+        if ($this->getTargetNamespace() === $namespace || $namespace === null) {
             /**
              * @var SchemaItem|null $item
              */
diff --git a/src/SchemaReader.php b/src/SchemaReader.php
index 76dbf2d4..d106275c 100644
--- a/src/SchemaReader.php
+++ b/src/SchemaReader.php
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ private static function splitParts(\DOMElement $node, string $typeName): array
 
         // If no namespace is found, throw an exception only if a prefix was provided.
         // If no prefix was provided and the above lookup failed, this means that there
-        // was no defalut namespace defined, making the element part of no namespace.
+        // was no default namespace defined, making the element part of no namespace.
         // In this case, we should not throw an exception since this is valid xml.
         if (!$namespace && null !== $prefix) {
             throw new TypeException(sprintf("Can't find namespace for prefix '%s', at line %d in %s ", $prefix, $node->getLineNo(), $node->ownerDocument->documentURI));
diff --git a/tests/ImportTest.php b/tests/ImportTest.php
index 483d278a..d9aac704 100644
--- a/tests/ImportTest.php
+++ b/tests/ImportTest.php
@@ -121,4 +121,11 @@ public function testDependentImport(): void
 
         self::assertInstanceOf(ElementDef::class, $schema->findElement('outerEl', 'http://tempuri.org/1'));
     }
+
+    public function testDefaultNamespaceImport(): void
+    {
+        $schema = $this->reader->readfile(__DIR__ . '/schema/schema.xsd');
+
+        self::assertInstanceOf(Schema::class, $schema);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/schema/schema.xsd b/tests/schema/schema.xsd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79abbbb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schema/schema.xsd
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://www.example.com" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ns2="http://www.example2.com">
+    <xs:import namespace="http://www.example2.com" schemaLocation="schema2.xsd"/>
+    <xs:complexType name="complexType1">
+        <xs:sequence>
+            <xs:element name="ElementList" type="ns2:ElementList"/>
+        </xs:sequence>
+    </xs:complexType>
+</xs:schema>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/schema/schema2.xsd b/tests/schema/schema2.xsd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..29596b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schema/schema2.xsd
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://www.example2.com" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+    <xs:complexType name="ElementList">
+        <xs:sequence>
+            <xs:element maxOccurs="5" name="Element" type="Element"/>
+        </xs:sequence>
+    </xs:complexType>
+    <xs:complexType name="Element">
+        <xs:attribute name="attribute" type="xs:string" />
+    </xs:complexType>
+</xs:schema>