diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rdoc b/CHANGELOG.rdoc
index c97d58bcf2..196720885d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rdoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rdoc
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   * JRuby 1.9 mode causes dead lock while running rake #571
   * HTML::Document#meta_encoding does not raise exception on docs with
     malformed content-type. #655
+  * Nokogiri::XML::Text#to_ary returns an array with the node text. #679
 
 
 == 1.5.2 / 2012-03-09
diff --git a/lib/nokogiri/xml/text.rb b/lib/nokogiri/xml/text.rb
index 99eecb1bff..5ab96f9530 100644
--- a/lib/nokogiri/xml/text.rb
+++ b/lib/nokogiri/xml/text.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ class Text < Nokogiri::XML::CharacterData
       def content=(string)
         self.native_content = string.to_s
       end
+
+      def to_ary
+        [self.text]
+      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/xml/test_text.rb b/test/xml/test_text.rb
index 14f1d911f9..d043ad6251 100644
--- a/test/xml/test_text.rb
+++ b/test/xml/test_text.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 module Nokogiri
   module XML
     class TestText < Nokogiri::TestCase
+      def test_ary
+        doc  = Nokogiri.XML "<root> foo <a>something</a> bar bazz </root>"
+        node = doc.root.children[2]
+        assert_equal [node.text], Array(node)
+      end
+
       def test_css_path
         doc  = Nokogiri.XML "<root> foo <a>something</a> bar bazz </root>"
         node = doc.root.children[2]