Index: lib/xmlrpc/parser.rb
===================================================================
--- lib/xmlrpc/parser.rb	(revision 27152)
+++ lib/xmlrpc/parser.rb	(working copy)
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
       private
 
       #
-      # remove all whitespaces but in the tags i4, int, boolean....
+      # remove all whitespaces but in the tags i4, i8, int, boolean....
       # and all comments
       #
       def removeWhitespacesAndComments(node)
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
 	  case _nodeType(nd)
 	  when :TEXT
             # TODO: add nil?
-            unless %w(i4 int boolean string double dateTime.iso8601 base64).include? node.nodeName
+            unless %w(i4 i8 int boolean string double dateTime.iso8601 base64).include? node.nodeName
 
                if node.nodeName == "value" 
                  if not node.childNodes.to_a.detect {|n| _nodeType(n) == :ELEMENT}.nil?
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
       def integer(node)
 	#TODO: check string for float because to_i returnsa
 	#      0 when wrong string
-	 nodeMustBe(node, %w(i4 int))    
+	 nodeMustBe(node, %w(i4 i8 int))    
 	hasOnlyOneChild(node)
 	
 	Convert.int(text(node.firstChild))
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
           text_zero_one(node)
 	when :ELEMENT
 	  case child.nodeName
-	  when "i4", "int"        then integer(child)
+	  when "i4", "i8", "int"  then integer(child)
 	  when "boolean"          then boolean(child)
 	  when "string"           then string(child)
 	  when "double"           then double(child)
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@
         case name
         when "string"
           @value = @data
-        when "i4", "int"
+        when "i4", "i8", "int"
           @value = Convert.int(@data)
         when "boolean"
           @value = Convert.boolean(@data)