diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f6b31ef0..efd73e49 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Fri Jun  9 21:45:02 CEST 2006 Kasimier Buchcik <libxml2-cvs@cazic.net>
+
+	* include/libxml/parser.h: Clarified in the docs that the tree
+	  must not  be tried to be modified if using the parser flag
+	  XML_PARSE_COMPACT as suggested by Stefan Behnel
+	  (#344390).
+
 Tue Jun  6 17:50:43 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* configure.ini NEWS doc//* libxml.spec.in : preparing release of 2.6.26
diff --git a/include/libxml/parser.h b/include/libxml/parser.h
index 46377ff2..8118d4e2 100644
--- a/include/libxml/parser.h
+++ b/include/libxml/parser.h
@@ -1089,7 +1089,9 @@ typedef enum {
     XML_PARSE_NSCLEAN	= 1<<13,/* remove redundant namespaces declarations */
     XML_PARSE_NOCDATA	= 1<<14,/* merge CDATA as text nodes */
     XML_PARSE_NOXINCNODE= 1<<15,/* do not generate XINCLUDE START/END nodes */
-    XML_PARSE_COMPACT   = 1<<16 /* compact small text nodes */
+    XML_PARSE_COMPACT   = 1<<16 /* compact small text nodes; no modification of
+                                   the tree allowed afterwards (will possibly
+				   crash if you try to modify the tree) */
 } xmlParserOption;
 
 XMLPUBFUN void XMLCALL