diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3892a3b8..e29bae4a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Apr 22 14:11:58 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
+
+	* tree.c: fixed #53388 with the provided patch
+
 Sun Apr 22 12:34:41 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
 
 	* valid.c: Bjorn detected an invalid memory access. Fixed
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index 28af567a..fe198d49 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ xmlStaticCopyNode(xmlNodePtr node, xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr parent,
 	        xmlNodePtr root = ret;
 
 		while (root->parent != NULL) root = root->parent;
-		xmlNewNs(root, ns->href, ns->prefix);
+		ret->ns = xmlNewNs(root, ns->href, ns->prefix);
 	    }
 	} else {
 	    /*