diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2cfe172..db226fd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Jan 23 19:22:54 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* tree.c: minimized the memory allocated for GetContent
+	  and a bit of cleanup.
+
 Thu Jan 23 17:41:37 CET 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* python/generator.py: seems there is no good reasons to
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index 4e3f749..2a2c68f 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -4170,7 +4170,7 @@
                 xmlBufferPtr buffer;
                 xmlChar *ret;
 
-                buffer = xmlBufferCreate();
+                buffer = xmlBufferCreateSize(64);
                 if (buffer == NULL)
                     return (NULL);
                 while (tmp != NULL) {
@@ -5382,10 +5382,11 @@
  */
 int
 xmlUnsetProp(xmlNodePtr node, const xmlChar *name) {
-    xmlAttrPtr prop = node->properties, prev = NULL;;
+    xmlAttrPtr prop, prev = NULL;;
 
     if ((node == NULL) || (name == NULL))
 	return(-1);
+    prop = node->properties;
     while (prop != NULL) {
         if ((xmlStrEqual(prop->name, name)) &&
 	    (prop->ns == NULL)) {