--- /dev/null
+From 77cb691f781918908dfe34785f00a5ff75d5cc20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
+Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:56:00 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] restore getcurrentbytecount
+
+see https://github.com/tomasguisasola/luaexpat/issues/3
+
+Fetch from: https://github.com/tomasguisasola/luaexpat/commit/0926f2d705109b7d35b721344264b39c1169e0de
+
+Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
+---
+ src/lxplib.c | 7 +++++++
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/luaexpat-1.3.3/src/lxplib.c b/luaexpat-1.3.3/src/lxplib.c
+index 7726913..35bec3c 100644
+--- a/luaexpat-1.3.3/src/lxplib.c
++++ b/luaexpat-1.3.3/src/lxplib.c
+@@ -538,11 +538,18 @@ static int lxp_stop (lua_State *L) {
+ return 1;
+ }
+
++static int lxp_getcurrentbytecount (lua_State* L) {
++ lxp_userdata *xpu = checkparser(L, 1);
++ lua_pushinteger(L, XML_GetCurrentByteCount(xpu->parser));
++ return 1;
++}
++
+ static const luaL_Reg lxp_meths[] = {
+ {"parse", lxp_parse},
+ {"close", lxp_close},
+ {"__gc", parser_gc},
+ {"pos", lxp_pos},
++ {"getcurrentbytecount", lxp_getcurrentbytecount},
+ {"setencoding", lxp_setencoding},
+ {"getcallbacks", getcallbacks},
+ {"getbase", getbase},
+--
+2.17.1
+