diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b4c9318a96..444a30ac4e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+Wed Jan 27 22:16:00 2010 Kirk Haines <khaines@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rexml/text.rb: Backport #1806 [ruby-core:24506]; (REXML::Text.normalize): call to_s for input.
+
 Tue Jan 26 3:03:00 2010 Kirk Haines <khaines@ruby-lang.org>
 
-	* eval.c: Backport #2039 [ruby-core:25339]; backported r24413, r24416, r24442 to fix a problem with IO#select and threads. This is the same issues as Bug #1993 [ruby-core:25114].
+	* eval.c: Backport #2039 [ruby-core:25339]; backported r24413, r24416, r24442 to fix a problem with IO#select and threads. This is the same issues as Bug #1993 [ruby-core:25114]. r26435
 
 Thu Jan 21 5:10:00 2010 Kirk Haines <khaines@ruby-lang.org>
 
diff --git a/lib/rexml/text.rb b/lib/rexml/text.rb
index 9804aa710b..f273319758 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/text.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/text.rb
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ module REXML
     EREFERENCE = /&(?!#{Entity::NAME};)/
     # Escapes all possible entities
     def Text::normalize( input, doctype=nil, entity_filter=nil )
-      copy = input
+      copy = input.to_s
       # Doing it like this rather than in a loop improves the speed
       #copy = copy.gsub( EREFERENCE, '&amp;' )
       copy = copy.gsub( "&", "&amp;" )