diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f03a14d27..8992b1937 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-03-14  Richard Frith-Macdonald & Fred Kiefer
+
+	* Source/NSXMLPrivate.h:
+	* Source/NSXMLNode.m:
+	* Source/NSXMLElement.m:
+	Fixups to get the code to build on CentOS/RedHat linux.
+
 2012-03-12  Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de>
 
 	* Source/NSXMLNode.m (-detach): Don't handle the namespace case.
diff --git a/Source/NSXMLElement.m b/Source/NSXMLElement.m
index ea0914a8c..25e18efef 100644
--- a/Source/NSXMLElement.m
+++ b/Source/NSXMLElement.m
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ GS_PRIVATE_INTERNAL(NSXMLElement)
                 }
               else
                 {
-                  xmlFreeNode(cur);
+                  xmlFreeNs(cur);
                 }
               return;
             }
@@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ GS_PRIVATE_INTERNAL(NSXMLElement)
 {
   NSEnumerator *en = [namespaces objectEnumerator];
   NSXMLNode *namespace = nil;
-  xmlNsPtr cur = NULL;
 
   // FIXME: Remove old namespaces
   // xmlFreeNsList(internal->node->nsDef);
@@ -409,7 +408,8 @@ GS_PRIVATE_INTERNAL(NSXMLElement)
   if (ns)
     {
       const xmlChar *uri = XMLSTRING(namespaceURI);
-      xmlNsPtr cur = NULL;
+      xmlNsPtr cur;
+
       for (cur = ns; cur != NULL; cur = cur->next)
 	{
           if (xmlStrcmp(uri, cur->href) == 0)
diff --git a/Source/NSXMLNode.m b/Source/NSXMLNode.m
index 300f12593..1a12dd399 100644
--- a/Source/NSXMLNode.m
+++ b/Source/NSXMLNode.m
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ isEqualTree(xmlNodePtr nodeA, xmlNodePtr nodeB)
 	    }
           if (node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL)
             {
-              docNode = ((xmlNsPtr)node)->context;
+              docNode = NULL;
             }
           else
             {
@@ -1016,7 +1016,6 @@ execute_xpath(NSXMLNode *xmlNode, NSString *xpath_exp, NSString *nmspaces)
         }
       [subNodes release];
 
-      [internal->URI release];
       [internal->objectValue release];
       [internal->subNodes release];
       if (node)
@@ -1355,15 +1354,12 @@ execute_xpath(NSXMLNode *xmlNode, NSString *xpath_exp, NSString *nmspaces)
     {
       return nil;
     }
+  if (XML_NAMESPACE_DECL == node->type)
+    {
+      return nil;
+    }
 
-  if (node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL)
-    {
-      parent = (xmlNodePtr)(((xmlNs *)node)->context);
-    }
-  else
-    {
-      parent = node->parent;
-    }
+  parent = node->parent;
   return [NSXMLNode _objectForNode: parent];
 }
 
@@ -1507,22 +1503,21 @@ execute_xpath(NSXMLNode *xmlNode, NSString *xpath_exp, NSString *nmspaces)
 - (NSString*) XMLStringWithOptions: (NSUInteger)options
 {
   NSString     *string = nil;
-  xmlNodePtr   node = (xmlNodePtr)[self _node];
   xmlChar      *buf = NULL;
   xmlDocPtr    doc;
-  xmlBufferPtr buffer = xmlBufferCreate();
+  xmlBufferPtr buffer;
   int error = 0;
   int len = 0;
 
-  if (node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL)
+  if (internal->node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL)
     {
-      doc = ((xmlNs *)node)->context;
+      xmlNsPtr	ns = (xmlNsPtr)internal->node;
+
+      return StringFromXMLStringPtr(ns->href);
     }
-  else
-    {
-      doc = node->doc;
-    }
-  error = xmlNodeDump(buffer, doc, node, 1, 1);
+  buffer = xmlBufferCreate();
+  doc = internal->node->doc;
+  error = xmlNodeDump(buffer, doc, internal->node, 1, 1);
   if (-1 == error)
     {
       xmlBufferFree(buffer);
@@ -1530,7 +1525,7 @@ execute_xpath(NSXMLNode *xmlNode, NSString *xpath_exp, NSString *nmspaces)
     }
   buf = buffer->content;
   len = buffer->use;
-  string = StringFromXMLString(buf,len);
+  string = StringFromXMLString(buf, len);
   xmlBufferFree(buffer);
 
   return string;
diff --git a/Source/NSXMLPrivate.h b/Source/NSXMLPrivate.h
index 2dd0bdcdd..25bb990fb 100644
--- a/Source/NSXMLPrivate.h
+++ b/Source/NSXMLPrivate.h
@@ -83,10 +83,28 @@ StringFromXMLString(const unsigned char *bytes, unsigned length)
 
 /* Instance variables for NSXMLNode.  This macro needs to be defined before
  * the NSXMLNode.h header is imported and before GSInternal.h is imported.
+ *
+ * The 'kind' tells us what sort of node this is.
+ * The 'node' points to the underlying libxml2 node structure.
+ * The 'nsParent' points to the parent node of a namspace structure, needed
+ *   because older (but still used on at least one major linux distribution)
+ *   versions of libxml2 don't have a link to the parent of a namespace.
+ * The 'options' field is a bitmask of options for this node.
+ * The 'objectValue' is the object value set for the node.
+ *
+ * The 'subNodes' array is confusing ... what *is* the ownership policy for
+ * NSXMLNode with respect to the libxml2 tree?  The simple/obvious one would
+ * be that each NSXMLNode owns any NSXMLNode pointed to by children of the
+ * corresponding libxml2 structure ... in which case there would be no need
+ * for this array because the references to the owned NSXMLNode instances
+ * would be the'_private' fields of the libxml2 structures.
+ *
+ * URI is probably not needed at all ... I'm not sure
  */
 #define GS_NSXMLNode_IVARS \
   NSUInteger	  kind; \
   GS_XMLNODETYPE *node;  \
+  xmlNodePtr	  nsParent; \
   NSUInteger      options; \
   id              objectValue; \
   NSString       *URI; \