diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 08aedf84..34c2804b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Nov  4 15:28:07 PST 2003 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
+
+	* python/generator.py: small enhancement to assure ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
+	  appears after the variable declaration.
+	* valid.c: trivial change to eliminate a warning message
+
 Tue Nov  4 11:24:04 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* configure.in NEWS doc/*: preparing release 2.6.2, updated and
diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py
index 79eeeb53..64baea74 100755
--- a/python/generator.py
+++ b/python/generator.py
@@ -464,10 +464,11 @@ def print_function_wrapper(name, output, export, include):
         return 1
 
     output.write("PyObject *\n")
-    output.write("libxml_%s(ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED PyObject *self," % (name))
+    output.write("libxml_%s(PyObject *self ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED," % (name))
+    output.write(" PyObject *args")
     if format == "":
-	output.write("ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED ")
-    output.write(" PyObject *args) {\n")
+	output.write(" ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED")
+    output.write(") {\n")
     if ret[0] != 'void':
         output.write("    PyObject *py_retval;\n")
     if c_return != "":
diff --git a/valid.c b/valid.c
index 98fc40b3..9599cd16 100644
--- a/valid.c
+++ b/valid.c
@@ -6072,7 +6072,6 @@ xmlValidateElement(xmlValidCtxtPtr ctxt, xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr elem) {
     }
     ns = elem->nsDef;
     while (ns != NULL) {
-        value = ns->href;
 	ret &= xmlValidateOneNamespace(ctxt, doc, elem, ns->prefix,
 	                               ns, ns->href);
         ns = ns->next;