diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 498b4e4a..4d47b49c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Apr  1 10:02:57 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xpath.c: fixed a bug in the nodeset to boolean comparison code
+	  pointed out by Melvyn Sopacua.
+
 Fri Mar 29 23:41:53 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* libxml.m4: Frédéric Crozat gave a patch related to the change
diff --git a/xpath.c b/xpath.c
index ac37f73f..68d44526 100644
--- a/xpath.c
+++ b/xpath.c
@@ -4423,9 +4423,11 @@ xmlXPathEqualValues(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt) {
 		case XPATH_NODESET:
 		case XPATH_XSLT_TREE:
 		    if ((arg2->nodesetval == NULL) ||
-			(arg2->nodesetval->nodeNr == 0)) ret = 0;
+			(arg2->nodesetval->nodeNr == 0))
+			ret = 0;
 		    else 
 			ret = 1;
+		    ret = (ret == arg1->boolval);
 		    break;
 		case XPATH_BOOLEAN:
 #ifdef DEBUG_EXPR