diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 39af0bb5e8..bccbdc47ab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Oct 13 00:17:49 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rexml/document.rb (REXML::Document::write): leaky
+	  modification trans -> transitive.  [ruby-dev:32040]
+
 Sat Oct 13 00:00:33 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* parse.y: encoding specifier should work if the line matches
diff --git a/lib/rexml/document.rb b/lib/rexml/document.rb
index 81e63c60f1..f09aa2bc1c 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/document.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/document.rb
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ module REXML
     #   unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML
     #   that IE's limited abilities can handle.  This hack inserts a space 
     #   before the /> on empty tags.  Defaults to false
-		def write( output=$stdout, indent=-1, trans=false, ie_hack=false )
+    def write( output=$stdout, indent=-1, transitive=false, ie_hack=false )
       if xml_decl.encoding != "UTF-8" && !output.kind_of?(Output)
         output = Output.new( output, xml_decl.encoding )
       end