diff --git a/Util/include/Poco/Util/XMLConfiguration.h b/Util/include/Poco/Util/XMLConfiguration.h
index 539e44df1..43721015d 100644
--- a/Util/include/Poco/Util/XMLConfiguration.h
+++ b/Util/include/Poco/Util/XMLConfiguration.h
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ public:
 		/// Loads the XML document containing the configuration data
 		/// from the given InputSource.
 
+	void load(Poco::XML::InputSource* pInputSource, unsigned long namePoolSize);
+		/// Loads the XML document containing the configuration data
+		/// from the given InputSource. Uses the give namePoolSize (which 
+		/// should be a suitable prime like 251, 509, 1021, 4093) for the
+		/// internal DOM Document's name pool.
+
 	void load(std::istream& istr);
 		/// Loads the XML document containing the configuration data
 		/// from the given stream.
diff --git a/Util/src/XMLConfiguration.cpp b/Util/src/XMLConfiguration.cpp
index 9bdbe5a90..e9249f09e 100644
--- a/Util/src/XMLConfiguration.cpp
+++ b/Util/src/XMLConfiguration.cpp
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ XMLConfiguration::~XMLConfiguration()
 }
 
 
-void XMLConfiguration::load(Poco::XML::InputSource* pInputSource)
+void XMLConfiguration::load(Poco::XML::InputSource* pInputSource, unsigned long namePoolSize)
 {
 	poco_check_ptr (pInputSource);
 	
-	Poco::XML::DOMParser parser;
+	Poco::XML::DOMParser parser(namePoolSize);
 	parser.setFeature(Poco::XML::XMLReader::FEATURE_NAMESPACES, false);
 	parser.setFeature(Poco::XML::DOMParser::FEATURE_FILTER_WHITESPACE, true);
 	Poco::XML::AutoPtr<Poco::XML::Document> pDoc = parser.parse(pInputSource);
@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ void XMLConfiguration::load(Poco::XML::InputSource* pInputSource)
 }
 
 
+void XMLConfiguration::load(Poco::XML::InputSource* pInputSource)
+{
+	load(pInputSource, POCO_XML_NAMEPOOL_DEFAULT_SIZE);
+}
+
+
 void XMLConfiguration::load(std::istream& istr)
 {
 	Poco::XML::InputSource src(istr);