diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a878b970..fb025fe6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Dec 17 14:52:17 PST 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
+
+	* python/generator.py: modified to allow the ns and nsDefs
+	  accessors to return None instead of error when no namespace
+	  is present (bug #)
+
 Fri Dec 17 11:40:21 PST 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
 
 	* doc/Makefile.am: changed maintainer-clean dependency with
diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py
index 60320652..6f5ee09b 100755
--- a/python/generator.py
+++ b/python/generator.py
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ functions_noexcept = {
     "xmlHasProp": 1,
     "xmlHasNsProp": 1,
     "xmlDocSetRootElement": 1,
+    "xmlNodeGetNs": 1,
+    "xmlNodeGetNsDefs": 1,
 }
 
 reference_keepers = {