diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e8dd3774..4c411354 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Nov  7 15:16:02 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* tree.c: make xmlFreeNode() handle attributes correctly.
+
 Wed Nov  6 23:51:11 CET 2002 Igor Zlatkovic <igor@stud.fh-frankfurt.de>
 
 	* catalog.c: completed the #96963 fix, as reported by Karl
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index 92267300..44ea7a55 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -2653,6 +2653,10 @@ xmlFreeNode(xmlNodePtr cur) {
 	xmlFreeNs((xmlNsPtr) cur);
         return;
     }
+    if (cur->type == XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE) {
+	xmlFreeProp((xmlAttrPtr) cur);
+	return;
+    }
     if ((cur->children != NULL) &&
 	(cur->type != XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE))
 	xmlFreeNodeList(cur->children);