diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 95857fac44..8c5c37ac21 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Feb  9 21:27:38 2010  Yusuke Endoh  <mame@tsg.ne.jp>
+
+	* lib/rexml/text.rb (REXML::Text#initialize): REXML::Text.new checks
+	  raw text for illegal characters without entity check, for the sake
+	  of 1.8 compatibility.  This had caused rubyspec error.
+
 Mon Feb  8 23:49:24 2010  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* io.c (rb_io_getline_fast): wrong calculation of new position
diff --git a/lib/rexml/text.rb b/lib/rexml/text.rb
index 5cef876c52..0f15f00c31 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/text.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/text.rb
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ module REXML
 
       @string.gsub!( /\r\n?/, "\n" )
 
-      Text.check(@string, illegal, doctype) if @raw and @parent
+      Text.check(@string, illegal, doctype) if @raw
     end
 
     def parent= parent
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ module REXML
             else
               raise "Illegal character '#{$1}' in raw string \"#{string}\""
             end
-          elsif $3 and !SUBSTITUTES.include?($1)
+          elsif @parent and $3 and !SUBSTITUTES.include?($1)
             if !doctype or !doctype.entities.has_key?($3)
               raise "Undeclared entity '#{$1}' in raw string \"#{string}\""
             end