diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b36f7ca6..c6938eeb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Sep 27 01:25:39 CEST 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* parser.c: William's change allowed to spot a nasty bug in xmlDoRead
+	  if the result is well formed that ctxt->myDoc is not NULL and uses
+	  the context dictionnary.
+
 Fri Sep 26 21:09:34 CEST 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* parser.c: other patches from William Brack to avoid
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index 039e071e..501b55ea 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -12149,7 +12149,9 @@ xmlDoRead(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, const char *URL, const char *encoding,
     else {
         ret = NULL;
 	if (ctxt->myDoc != NULL) {
-	    ctxt->myDoc->dict = NULL;
+	    if ((ctxt->dictNames) &&
+		(ctxt->myDoc->dict == ctxt->dict))
+		xmlDictReference(ctxt->dict);
 	    xmlFreeDoc(ctxt->myDoc);
 	}
     }