diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b6507532..df34aa9d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed May  9 12:50:15 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
+
+	* tree.c: zb@bisp.com reported an error in xmlNodeGetLang()
+
 Tue May  8 12:31:40 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
 
 	* parser.c: added xmlParseExternalEntityPrivate() to allow
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index 53f47e25..3f6bcbf1 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -3025,7 +3025,7 @@ xmlNodeGetLang(xmlNodePtr cur) {
     xmlChar *lang;
 
     while (cur != NULL) {
-        lang = xmlGetProp(cur, BAD_CAST "xml:lang");
+        lang = xmlGetNsProp(cur, BAD_CAST "lang", XML_XML_NAMESPACE);
 	if (lang != NULL)
 	    return(lang);
 	cur = cur->parent;