diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d6c1ef3b..167fc71e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Nov  1 09:37:13 CET 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* debugXML.c include/libxml/debugXML.h: bool can be a reserved
+	  keyword.
+
 Wed Oct 31 18:50:08 CET 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am: cleanup
diff --git a/debugXML.c b/debugXML.c
index b1461a92..bbda5d7e 100644
--- a/debugXML.c
+++ b/debugXML.c
@@ -1162,14 +1162,14 @@ xmlLsOneNode(FILE *output, xmlNodePtr node) {
 
 /**
  * xmlBoolToText:
- * @bool : a bool to turn into text
+ * @boolval : a bool to turn into text
  *
  * Convenient way to turn bool into text 
 */
 const char *
-xmlBoolToText(int bool)
+xmlBoolToText(int boolval)
 {
-    if (bool)
+    if (boolval)
         return("True");
     else
         return("False");
diff --git a/include/libxml/debugXML.h b/include/libxml/debugXML.h
index bcd8505f..a4619029 100644
--- a/include/libxml/debugXML.h
+++ b/include/libxml/debugXML.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ void	xmlDebugDumpEntities	(FILE *output,
 void	xmlLsOneNode		(FILE *output, xmlNodePtr node);
 int	xmlLsCountNode		(xmlNodePtr node);
 
-const char *xmlBoolToText	(int bool);
+const char *xmlBoolToText	(int boolval);
 long	xmlGetLineNo		(xmlNodePtr node);
 
 /****************************************************************