diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index c0d3c3f8..31ff0caa 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -1179,54 +1179,6 @@ xmlTextReaderDoExpand(xmlTextReaderPtr reader) {
     return(1);
 }
 
-/**
- * xmlTextReaderCollectSiblings:
- * @node:    the first child
- *
- *  Traverse depth-first through all sibling nodes and their children
- *  nodes and concatenate their content. This is an auxiliary function
- *  to xmlTextReaderReadString.
- *
- *  Returns a string containing the content, or NULL in case of error.
- */
-static xmlChar *
-xmlTextReaderCollectSiblings(xmlNodePtr node)
-{
-    xmlBufferPtr buffer;
-    xmlChar *ret;
-
-    if ((node == NULL) || (node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL))
-        return(NULL);
-
-    buffer = xmlBufferCreate();
-    if (buffer == NULL)
-       return NULL;
-    xmlBufferSetAllocationScheme(buffer, XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_DOUBLEIT);
-
-    for ( ; node != NULL; node = node->next) {
-       switch (node->type) {
-       case XML_TEXT_NODE:
-       case XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
-           xmlBufferCat(buffer, node->content);
-           break;
-       case XML_ELEMENT_NODE: {
-           xmlChar *tmp;
-
-	   tmp = xmlTextReaderCollectSiblings(node->children);
-           xmlBufferCat(buffer, tmp);
-	   xmlFree(tmp);
-	   break;
-       }
-       default:
-           break;
-       }
-    }
-    ret = buffer->content;
-    buffer->content = NULL;
-    xmlBufferFree(buffer);
-    return(ret);
-}
-
 /**
  * xmlTextReaderRead:
  * @reader:  the xmlTextReaderPtr used
@@ -1781,29 +1733,70 @@ xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml(xmlTextReaderPtr reader)
 xmlChar *
 xmlTextReaderReadString(xmlTextReaderPtr reader)
 {
-    xmlNodePtr node;
+    xmlNodePtr node, cur;
+    xmlBufPtr buf;
+    xmlChar *ret;
 
     if ((reader == NULL) || (reader->node == NULL))
        return(NULL);
 
     node = (reader->curnode != NULL) ? reader->curnode : reader->node;
     switch (node->type) {
-    case XML_TEXT_NODE:
-       if (node->content != NULL)
-           return(readerStrdup(reader, node->content));
-       break;
-    case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
-	if (xmlTextReaderDoExpand(reader) != -1) {
-	    return xmlTextReaderCollectSiblings(node->children);
-	}
-	break;
-    case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
-	/* TODO */
-	break;
-    default:
-       break;
+        case XML_TEXT_NODE:
+        case XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
+        case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
+            break;
+        case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
+            /* TODO */
+            break;
+        default:
+            break;
     }
-    return(NULL);
+
+    buf = xmlBufCreateSize(30);
+    if (buf == NULL) {
+        xmlTextReaderErrMemory(reader);
+        return(NULL);
+    }
+    xmlBufSetAllocationScheme(buf, XML_BUFFER_ALLOC_DOUBLEIT);
+
+    cur = node;
+    while (cur != NULL) {
+        switch (cur->type) {
+            case XML_TEXT_NODE:
+            case XML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
+                xmlBufCat(buf, cur->content);
+                break;
+
+            case XML_ELEMENT_NODE:
+                if (cur->children != NULL) {
+                    cur = cur->children;
+                    continue;
+                }
+                break;
+
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+        if (cur == node)
+            goto done;
+
+        while (cur->next == NULL) {
+            cur = cur->parent;
+            if (cur == node)
+                goto done;
+        }
+        cur = cur->next;
+    }
+
+done:
+    ret = xmlBufDetach(buf);
+    if (ret == NULL)
+        xmlTextReaderErrMemory(reader);
+
+    xmlBufFree(buf);
+    return(ret);
 }
 
 #if 0