diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9b013f763..813ee940b9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Feb 17 11:33:30 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rss/rexmlparser.rb: REXML version may be 4 digits.
+
 Tue Feb 17 10:45:59 2004  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/syck/rubyext.c (syck_emitter_end_object): takes only one arg.
diff --git a/lib/rss/rexmlparser.rb b/lib/rss/rexmlparser.rb
index 541ff82fc3..5a8cc2ac5a 100644
--- a/lib/rss/rexmlparser.rb
+++ b/lib/rss/rexmlparser.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 require "rexml/document"
 require "rexml/streamlistener"
 
-/\A(\d+)\.(\d+).\d+\z/ =~ REXML::Version
-if $1.to_i < 2 or ($1.to_i == 2 and $2.to_i < 5)
-	raise LoadError
+/\A(\d+)\.(\d+)(?:.\d+)+\z/ =~ REXML::Version
+if ([$1.to_i, $2.to_i] <=> [2, 5]) < 0
+	raise LoadError, "needs REXML 2.5 or later (#{REXML::Version})"
 end
 
 module RSS