diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f7edb258..5d195011 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Dec 29 12:13:18 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xmlreader.c python/tests/reader.py: fixed a bug pointed out
+	  by Stéphane Bidoul and integrated it into the tests
+
 Sat Dec 28 23:49:12 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* xmlreader.c include/libxml/xmlreader.h doc/libxml2-api.xml:
diff --git a/python/tests/reader.py b/python/tests/reader.py
index 7b7dcc85..c615c700 100755
--- a/python/tests/reader.py
+++ b/python/tests/reader.py
@@ -235,6 +235,36 @@ if reader.MoveToNextAttribute() != 0:
     print "Failed to detect last attribute"
     sys.exit(1)
 
+#
+# Another test provided by Stéphane Bidoul and checked with C#
+#
+expect="""1 (a) [None]
+1 (b) [None]
+-- 2 (b1) [b1]
+1 (c) [None]
+3 (#text) [content of c]
+15 (c) [None]
+15 (a) [None]
+"""
+res=""
+f = StringIO.StringIO("""<a><b b1="b1"/><c>content of c</c></a>""")
+input = libxml2.inputBuffer(f)
+reader = input.newTextReader("test5")
+
+while reader.Read():
+    res=res + "%s (%s) [%s]\n" % (reader.NodeType(),reader.Name(),
+                                  reader.Value())
+    if reader.NodeType() == 1: # Element
+	while reader.MoveToNextAttribute():
+	    res = res + "-- %s (%s) [%s]\n" % (reader.NodeType(),
+	                                       reader.Name(),reader.Value())
+
+if res != expect:
+    print "test5 failed"
+    print res
+    sys.exit(1)
+    
+
 del f
 del input
 del reader
diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index 9640414a..a32ec307 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ xmlTextReaderRead(xmlTextReaderPtr reader) {
     fprintf(stderr, "\nREAD ");
     DUMP_READER
 #endif
+    reader->curnode = NULL;
     if (reader->mode == XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_INITIAL) {
 	reader->mode = XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_INTERACTIVE;
 	/*