diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1c1e255..62e5d50 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Fri Dec  5 17:07:29 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* pattern.c xmlreader.c xmllint.c include/libxml/pattern.h
+	  include/libxml/xmlreader.h: fixed the pattern interfaces
+	  but not yet the parser to handle the namespaces.
+	* doc/examples/reader3.c doc/*: fixed the example, rebuilt the docs.
+
 Fri Dec  5 15:49:44 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* globals.c xmlwriter.c doc/apibuild.py include/libxml/globals.h 
diff --git a/doc/APIchunk11.html b/doc/APIchunk11.html
index eea44c9..0c953d8 100644
--- a/doc/APIchunk11.html
+++ b/doc/APIchunk11.html
@@ -184,7 +184,9 @@
 <a href="html/libxml-parser.html#startElementNsSAX2Func">startElementNsSAX2Func</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-catalog.html#xmlLoadCatalog">xmlLoadCatalog</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-catalog.html#xmlLoadCatalogs">xmlLoadCatalogs</a><br />
+<a href="html/libxml-pattern.html#xmlPatterncompile">xmlPatterncompile</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-SAX2.html#xmlSAX2StartElementNs">xmlSAX2StartElementNs</a><br />
+<a href="html/libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPreservePattern">xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidateDtd">xmlValidateDtd</a><br />
 </dd><dt>delayed</dt><dd><a href="html/libxml-xmlIO.html#xmlOutputBufferWrite">xmlOutputBufferWrite</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-xmlIO.html#xmlOutputBufferWriteString">xmlOutputBufferWriteString</a><br />
diff --git a/doc/APIfunctions.html b/doc/APIfunctions.html
index 5832dda..c21ab2f 100644
--- a/doc/APIfunctions.html
+++ b/doc/APIfunctions.html
@@ -682,9 +682,11 @@
 <a href="html/libxml-parser.html#startElementSAXFunc">startElementSAXFunc</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-xlink.html#xlinkExtendedLinkFunk">xlinkExtendedLinkFunk</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-xlink.html#xlinkExtendedLinkSetFunk">xlinkExtendedLinkSetFunk</a><br />
+<a href="html/libxml-pattern.html#xmlPatterncompile">xmlPatterncompile</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-SAX2.html#xmlSAX2StartElement">xmlSAX2StartElement</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-SAX2.html#xmlSAX2StartElementNs">xmlSAX2StartElementNs</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-SAX2.html#xmlSAX2StartElementNs">xmlSAX2StartElementNs</a><br />
+<a href="html/libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPreservePattern">xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidGetPotentialChildren">xmlValidGetPotentialChildren</a><br />
 <a href="html/libxml-valid.html#xmlValidGetValidElements">xmlValidGetValidElements</a><br />
 </p><h2>Type const xmlListPtr:</h2><p><a href="html/libxml-list.html#xmlListCopy">xmlListCopy</a><br />
diff --git a/doc/examples/reader3.c b/doc/examples/reader3.c
index 715deee..e9815cd 100644
--- a/doc/examples/reader3.c
+++ b/doc/examples/reader3.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         /*
 	 * add the pattern to preserve
 	 */
-        if (xmlTextReaderPreservePattern(reader, pattern) < 0) {
+        if (xmlTextReaderPreservePattern(reader, pattern, NULL) < 0) {
             fprintf(stderr, "%s : failed add preserve pattern %s\n",
 	            filename, (const char *) pattern);
 	}
diff --git a/doc/html/libxml-xmlreader.html b/doc/html/libxml-xmlreader.html
index 083cd33..17bd995 100644
--- a/doc/html/libxml-xmlreader.html
+++ b/doc/html/libxml-xmlreader.html
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 <pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderNormalization">xmlTextReaderNormalization</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
 <pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> *	<a href="#xmlTextReaderPrefix">xmlTextReaderPrefix</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
 <pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlNodePtr">xmlNodePtr</a>	<a href="#xmlTextReaderPreserve">xmlTextReaderPreserve</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
-<pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderPreservePattern">xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * pattern)</pre>
+<pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderPreservePattern">xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * pattern, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> ** namespaces)</pre>
 <pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderQuoteChar">xmlTextReaderQuoteChar</a>		(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
 <pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderRead">xmlTextReaderRead</a>		(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
 <pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlTextReaderReadAttributeValue">xmlTextReaderReadAttributeValue</a>	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)</pre>
@@ -249,9 +249,9 @@
 </pre><p>A shorthand <a href="libxml-SAX.html#reference">reference</a> to the namespace associated with the node.</p>
 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the prefix or NULL if not available</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderPreserve" id="xmlTextReaderPreserve"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderPreserve</h3><pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlNodePtr">xmlNodePtr</a>	xmlTextReaderPreserve	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)<br />
 </pre><p>current node being accessed by the xmlTextReader. This is dangerous because the underlying node may be destroyed on the next Reads.</p>
-<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlNodePtr">xmlNodePtr</a> or NULL in case of error.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderPreservePattern" id="xmlTextReaderPreservePattern"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlTextReaderPreservePattern	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * pattern)<br />
+<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlNodePtr">xmlNodePtr</a> or NULL in case of error.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderPreservePattern" id="xmlTextReaderPreservePattern"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderPreservePattern</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlTextReaderPreservePattern	(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * pattern, <br />					 const <a href="libxml-tree.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> ** namespaces)<br />
 </pre><p>This tells the XML Reader to preserve all nodes matched by the pattern. The caller must also use xmlTextReaderCurrentDoc() to keep an handle on the resulting document once parsing has finished</p>
-<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>pattern</tt></i>:</span></td><td>an XPath subset pattern</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>a positive number in case of success and -1 in case of error</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderQuoteChar" id="xmlTextReaderQuoteChar"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderQuoteChar</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlTextReaderQuoteChar		(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)<br />
+<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>pattern</tt></i>:</span></td><td>an XPath subset pattern</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>namespaces</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>a positive number in case of success and -1 in case of error</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderQuoteChar" id="xmlTextReaderQuoteChar"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderQuoteChar</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlTextReaderQuoteChar		(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)<br />
 </pre><p>The quotation mark character used to enclose the value of an attribute.</p>
 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" /><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>reader</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the <a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> used</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>&quot; or ' and -1 in case of error</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h3><a name="xmlTextReaderRead" id="xmlTextReaderRead"></a>Function: xmlTextReaderRead</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlTextReaderRead		(<a href="libxml-xmlreader.html#xmlTextReaderPtr">xmlTextReaderPtr</a> reader)<br />
 </pre><p>Moves the position of the current instance to the next node in the stream, exposing its properties.</p>
diff --git a/doc/libxml2-api.xml b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
index 274a445..155ba3f 100644
--- a/doc/libxml2-api.xml
+++ b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
@@ -10024,11 +10024,12 @@
       <arg name='node' type='xmlNodePtr' info='a node'/>
     </function>
     <function name='xmlPatterncompile' file='pattern'>
-      <info>Compile a pattern</info>
+      <info>Compile a pattern.</info>
       <return type='xmlPatternPtr' info='the compiled for of the pattern or NULL in case of error'/>
       <arg name='pattern' type='const xmlChar *' info='the pattern to compile'/>
       <arg name='dict' type='xmlDict *' info='an optional dictionnary for interned strings'/>
       <arg name='flags' type='int' info='compilation flags, undefined yet'/>
+      <arg name='namespaces' type='const xmlChar **' info='the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL'/>
     </function>
     <function name='xmlPedanticParserDefault' file='parser'>
       <info>Set and return the previous value for enabling pedantic warnings.</info>
@@ -11764,6 +11765,7 @@
       <return type='int' info='a positive number in case of success and -1 in case of error'/>
       <arg name='reader' type='xmlTextReaderPtr' info='the xmlTextReaderPtr used'/>
       <arg name='pattern' type='const xmlChar *' info='an XPath subset pattern'/>
+      <arg name='namespaces' type='const xmlChar **' info='the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL'/>
     </function>
     <function name='xmlTextReaderQuoteChar' file='xmlreader'>
       <info>The quotation mark character used to enclose the value of an attribute.</info>
diff --git a/doc/libxml2-refs.xml b/doc/libxml2-refs.xml
index 1088559..3169d24 100644
--- a/doc/libxml2-refs.xml
+++ b/doc/libxml2-refs.xml
@@ -7085,9 +7085,11 @@
       <ref name='startElementSAXFunc'/>
       <ref name='xlinkExtendedLinkFunk'/>
       <ref name='xlinkExtendedLinkSetFunk'/>
+      <ref name='xmlPatterncompile'/>
       <ref name='xmlSAX2StartElement'/>
       <ref name='xmlSAX2StartElementNs'/>
       <ref name='xmlSAX2StartElementNs'/>
+      <ref name='xmlTextReaderPreservePattern'/>
       <ref name='xmlValidGetPotentialChildren'/>
       <ref name='xmlValidGetValidElements'/>
     </type>
@@ -18242,7 +18244,9 @@
           <ref name='startElementNsSAX2Func'/>
           <ref name='xmlLoadCatalog'/>
           <ref name='xmlLoadCatalogs'/>
+          <ref name='xmlPatterncompile'/>
           <ref name='xmlSAX2StartElementNs'/>
+          <ref name='xmlTextReaderPreservePattern'/>
           <ref name='xmlValidateDtd'/>
         </word>
         <word name='delayed'>
diff --git a/include/libxml/pattern.h b/include/libxml/pattern.h
index bac6b4e..9db9c4e 100644
--- a/include/libxml/pattern.h
+++ b/include/libxml/pattern.h
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
 XMLPUBFUN xmlPatternPtr XMLCALL
 			xmlPatterncompile	(const xmlChar *pattern,
 						 xmlDict *dict,
-						 int flags);
+						 int flags,
+						 const xmlChar **namespaces);
 XMLPUBFUN int XMLCALL
 			xmlPatternMatch		(xmlPatternPtr comp,
 						 xmlNodePtr node);
diff --git a/include/libxml/xmlreader.h b/include/libxml/xmlreader.h
index c9c7989..f4add56 100644
--- a/include/libxml/xmlreader.h
+++ b/include/libxml/xmlreader.h
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@
 		    xmlTextReaderPreserve	(xmlTextReaderPtr reader);
 XMLPUBFUN int XMLCALL	
 		    xmlTextReaderPreservePattern(xmlTextReaderPtr reader,
-		    				 const xmlChar *pattern);
+		    				 const xmlChar *pattern,
+						 const xmlChar **namespaces);
 XMLPUBFUN xmlDocPtr XMLCALL	
 		    xmlTextReaderCurrentDoc	(xmlTextReaderPtr reader);
 XMLPUBFUN xmlNodePtr XMLCALL	
diff --git a/pattern.c b/pattern.c
index 01f974c..5cac2df 100644
--- a/pattern.c
+++ b/pattern.c
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
     xmlDictPtr     dict;		/* the dictionnary if any */
     xmlPatternPtr  comp;		/* the result */
     xmlNodePtr     elem;		/* the current node if any */    
+    const xmlChar **namespaces;		/* the namespaces definitions */
+    int   nb_namespaces;		/* the number of namespaces */
 };
 
 /************************************************************************
@@ -149,14 +151,16 @@
 /**
  * xmlNewPatParserContext:
  * @pattern:  the pattern context
- * @ctxt:  the transformation context, if done at run-time
+ * @dict:  the inherited dictionnary or NULL
+ * @namespaces: the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL
  *
  * Create a new XML pattern parser context
  *
  * Returns the newly allocated xmlPatParserContextPtr or NULL in case of error
  */
 static xmlPatParserContextPtr
-xmlNewPatParserContext(const xmlChar *pattern, xmlDictPtr dict) {
+xmlNewPatParserContext(const xmlChar *pattern, xmlDictPtr dict,
+                       const xmlChar **namespaces) {
     xmlPatParserContextPtr cur;
 
     if (pattern == NULL)
@@ -172,6 +176,14 @@
     cur->dict = dict;
     cur->cur = pattern;
     cur->base = pattern;
+    if (namespaces != NULL) {
+        int i;
+	for (i = 0;namespaces[2 * i] != NULL;i++);
+        cur->nb_namespaces = i;
+    } else {
+        cur->nb_namespaces = 0;
+    }
+    cur->namespaces = namespaces;
     return(cur);
 }
 
@@ -871,17 +883,19 @@
  * @pattern: the pattern to compile
  * @dict: an optional dictionnary for interned strings
  * @flags: compilation flags, undefined yet
+ * @namespaces: the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL
  *
- * Compile a pattern
+ * Compile a pattern.
  *
  * Returns the compiled for of the pattern or NULL in case of error
  */
 xmlPatternPtr
-xmlPatterncompile(const xmlChar *pattern, xmlDict *dict, int flags) {
+xmlPatterncompile(const xmlChar *pattern, xmlDict *dict, int flags,
+                  const xmlChar **namespaces) {
     xmlPatternPtr ret = NULL;
     xmlPatParserContextPtr ctxt = NULL;
 
-    ctxt = xmlNewPatParserContext(pattern, dict);
+    ctxt = xmlNewPatParserContext(pattern, dict, namespaces);
     if (ctxt == NULL) goto error;
     ret = xmlNewPattern();
     if (ret == NULL) goto error;
diff --git a/python/libxml2class.txt b/python/libxml2class.txt
index b73910b..271dbeb 100644
--- a/python/libxml2class.txt
+++ b/python/libxml2class.txt
@@ -739,7 +739,6 @@
     Normalization()
     Prefix()
     Preserve()
-    PreservePattern()
     QuoteChar()
     Read()
     ReadAttributeValue()
diff --git a/xmllint.c b/xmllint.c
index 8cc8e58..37dc72e 100644
--- a/xmllint.c
+++ b/xmllint.c
@@ -1881,7 +1881,7 @@
 #endif /* LIBXML_SCHEMAS_ENABLED */
 #ifdef LIBXML_PATTERN_ENABLED
     if (pattern != NULL) {
-        patternc = xmlPatterncompile((const xmlChar *) pattern, NULL, 0);
+        patternc = xmlPatterncompile((const xmlChar *) pattern, NULL, 0, NULL);
 	if (patternc == NULL) {
 	    xmlGenericError(xmlGenericErrorContext,
 		    "Pattern %s failed to compile\n", pattern);
diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index 0295ddc..0ce19db 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -3554,6 +3554,7 @@
  * xmlTextReaderPreservePattern:
  * @reader:  the xmlTextReaderPtr used
  * @pattern:  an XPath subset pattern
+ * @namespaces: the prefix definitions, array of [URI, prefix] or NULL
  * 
  * This tells the XML Reader to preserve all nodes matched by the
  * pattern. The caller must also use xmlTextReaderCurrentDoc() to
@@ -3562,13 +3563,15 @@
  * Returns a positive number in case of success and -1 in case of error
  */
 int
-xmlTextReaderPreservePattern(xmlTextReaderPtr reader, const xmlChar *pattern) {
+xmlTextReaderPreservePattern(xmlTextReaderPtr reader, const xmlChar *pattern,
+                             const xmlChar **namespaces)
+{
     xmlPatternPtr comp;
 
     if ((reader == NULL) || (pattern == NULL))
 	return(-1);
     
-    comp = xmlPatterncompile(pattern, reader->dict, 0);
+    comp = xmlPatterncompile(pattern, reader->dict, 0, namespaces);
     if (comp == NULL)
         return(-1);