diff --git a/XML/include/Poco/DOM/DOMParser.h b/XML/include/Poco/DOM/DOMParser.h
index 440b60574..1a60c2438 100644
--- a/XML/include/Poco/DOM/DOMParser.h
+++ b/XML/include/Poco/DOM/DOMParser.h
@@ -40,9 +40,12 @@ class XML_API DOMParser
 	/// support of a WhitespaceFilter.
 {
 public:
-	DOMParser(NamePool* pNamePool = 0);
+	explicit DOMParser(NamePool* pNamePool = 0);
 		/// Creates a new DOMParser. 
 		/// If a NamePool is given, it becomes the Document's NamePool.
+		
+	explicit DOMParser(unsigned long namePoolSize);
+		/// Creates a new DOMParser, using the given name pool size.
 
 	~DOMParser();
 		/// Destroys the DOMParser.
diff --git a/XML/src/DOMParser.cpp b/XML/src/DOMParser.cpp
index 4360f0f37..5762760ae 100644
--- a/XML/src/DOMParser.cpp
+++ b/XML/src/DOMParser.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ DOMParser::DOMParser(NamePool* pNamePool):
 }
 
 
+DOMParser::DOMParser(unsigned long namePoolSize):
+	_pNamePool(new NamePool(namePoolSize)),
+	_filterWhitespace(false)
+{
+	_saxParser.setFeature(XMLReader::FEATURE_NAMESPACES, true);
+	_saxParser.setFeature(XMLReader::FEATURE_NAMESPACE_PREFIXES, true);
+}
+
+
 DOMParser::~DOMParser()
 {
 	if (_pNamePool) _pNamePool->release();