diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 56594187..6f1261f4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Apr 22 15:18:01 CEST 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* HTMLparser.c: tried to fix #98879 again in a more solid
+	  way.
+	 
 Tue Apr 22 13:58:43 CEST 2003 Igor Zlatkovic <igor@zlatkovic.com>
 
 	* win32/libxml2.def.src: added more exports from the relaxng and
diff --git a/HTMLparser.c b/HTMLparser.c
index 572a7501..f46cd661 100644
--- a/HTMLparser.c
+++ b/HTMLparser.c
@@ -4493,6 +4493,12 @@ htmlParseTryOrFinish(htmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, int terminate) {
 	}
         if (avail < 1)
 	    goto done;
+	cur = in->cur[0];
+	if (cur == 0) {
+	    SKIP(1);
+	    continue;
+	}
+
         switch (ctxt->instate) {
             case XML_PARSER_EOF:
 	        /*