diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d31661ed..25d97672 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Aug 13 00:40:14 EDT 1998  Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
+
+	* applied small patch on numeric entities from
+	  Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@appliedtheory.com>
+
 Wed Aug 12 23:12:58 EDT 1998  Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
 
 	* New release 0.2, removed the old xml_* files so that it's
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index bb24dd58..c7fb47f4 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -1901,6 +1901,7 @@ CHAR *xmlParseCharRef(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, int inLine) {
 		val = 0;
 		break;
 	    }
+	    NEXT;
 	}
 	if (CUR != ';')
 	    NEXT;
@@ -1914,6 +1915,7 @@ CHAR *xmlParseCharRef(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt, int inLine) {
 		val = 0;
 		break;
 	    }
+	    NEXT;
 	}
 	if (CUR != ';')
 	    NEXT;