diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 452c15e..c61831f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Sep 21 08:53:06 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* HTMLparser.c include/libxml/HTMLparser.h: exports htmlNewParserCtxt()
+	  as Michael Day pointed out this is needed to use htmlCtxtRead*()
+
 Tue Sep 19 14:42:59 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* parser.c: applied patch from Ben Darnell on #321545, I could not
diff --git a/HTMLparser.c b/HTMLparser.c
index 2ceef16..02692b3 100644
--- a/HTMLparser.c
+++ b/HTMLparser.c
@@ -4261,10 +4261,10 @@
  *
  * Allocate and initialize a new parser context.
  *
- * Returns the xmlParserCtxtPtr or NULL
+ * Returns the htmlParserCtxtPtr or NULL in case of allocation error
  */
 
-static htmlParserCtxtPtr
+htmlParserCtxtPtr
 htmlNewParserCtxt(void)
 {
     xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt;
diff --git a/include/libxml/HTMLparser.h b/include/libxml/HTMLparser.h
index 8477efb..05905e4 100644
--- a/include/libxml/HTMLparser.h
+++ b/include/libxml/HTMLparser.h
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@
 			htmlParseElement(htmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
 
 XMLPUBFUN htmlParserCtxtPtr XMLCALL	
+			htmlNewParserCtxt(void);
+
+XMLPUBFUN htmlParserCtxtPtr XMLCALL	
 			htmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt(const char *buffer,
 						   int size);