diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 05541d8d..218fc8d1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Mar  2 04:45:15 CET 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
+
+	* parser.c: seems a better solution to <a>   </a> exists,
+	  will try it for a while
+
 Thu Mar  2 02:26:13 CET 2000 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
 
 	* parser.c: tried to remove the <a>   </a> generating <a/>
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 4a9d9012..28236825 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -2101,15 +2101,17 @@ static int areBlanks(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const xmlChar *str, int len) {
 	return(0);
     if (CUR != '<') return(0);
     if (ctxt->node == NULL) return(0);
+    if ((ctxt->node->childs == NULL) &&
+	(CUR == '<') && (NXT(1) == '/')) return(0);
 
     lastChild = xmlGetLastChild(ctxt->node);
     if (lastChild == NULL) {
-	if (ctxt->node->content != NULL) return(0);
+        if (ctxt->node->content != NULL) return(0);
     } else if (xmlNodeIsText(lastChild))
-	return(0);
+        return(0);
     else if ((ctxt->node->childs != NULL) &&
-	     (xmlNodeIsText(ctxt->node->childs)))
-	return(0);
+             (xmlNodeIsText(ctxt->node->childs)))
+        return(0);
     return(1);
 }