diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 86870c9c..05c8689c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Oct 13 14:42:44 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* parser.c: fix a problem in xmlSplitQName resulting in bug #334669
+
 Fri Oct 13 12:27:22 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* parser.c: fixed xmlIOParseDTD handling of @input in error case,
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index a79e27a7..6b5e86bf 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -2492,10 +2492,12 @@ xmlSplitQName(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar *name, xmlChar **prefix) {
 	buffer[len] = 0;
     }
     
-    /* nasty but well=formed
     if ((c == ':') && (*cur == 0)) {
+        if (buffer != NULL)
+	    xmlFree(buffer);
+	*prefix = NULL;
 	return(xmlStrdup(name));
-    } */
+    }
 
     if (buffer == NULL)
 	ret = xmlStrndup(buf, len);