diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b9829a1b..b87163c2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Aug  3 08:14:44 PDT 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
+
+	* HTMLparser.c: fixed initialisation problem for htmlReadMemory
+	  (bug 149041)
+
 Sat Jul 31 11:01:33 PDT 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
 
 	* doc/buildDocBookCatalog: enhanced per bug 119876.  Further
diff --git a/HTMLparser.c b/HTMLparser.c
index d8230669..309d93c6 100644
--- a/HTMLparser.c
+++ b/HTMLparser.c
@@ -5648,6 +5648,8 @@ htmlReadMemory(const char *buffer, int size, const char *URL, const char *encodi
     ctxt = xmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt(buffer, size);
     if (ctxt == NULL)
         return (NULL);
+    if (ctxt->sax != NULL)
+        memcpy(ctxt->sax, &htmlDefaultSAXHandler, sizeof(xmlSAXHandlerV1));
     return (htmlDoRead(ctxt, URL, encoding, options, 0));
 }