diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f6663846..ad8093b0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Nov 24 14:13:21 CET 2002 ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
+
+	* python/libxml.c (libxml_prev): Return the previous as opposed to
+	the next node (I guess this is the result of some cut & paste programming:)
+
 Sat Nov 23 17:22:22 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* doc/Makefile.am: Jan Rafaj pointed a bug in the Makefile.
diff --git a/python/libxml.c b/python/libxml.c
index c9d11d1c..55bee241 100644
--- a/python/libxml.c
+++ b/python/libxml.c
@@ -1640,13 +1640,13 @@ libxml_prev(ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED PyObject * self, PyObject * args)
         case XML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE:{
                 xmlAttrPtr attr = (xmlAttrPtr) cur;
 
-                res = (xmlNodePtr) attr->next;
+                res = (xmlNodePtr) attr->prev;
             }
         case XML_NAMESPACE_DECL:
             res = NULL;
             break;
         default:
-            res = cur->next;
+            res = cur->prev;
             break;
     }
     resultobj = libxml_xmlNodePtrWrap(res);