diff --git a/dom.js b/dom.js
index b13b371..6864f8c 100644
--- a/dom.js
+++ b/dom.js
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ function serializeToString(node,buf,isHTML,nodeFilter,visibleNamespaces){
 	case ATTRIBUTE_NODE:
 		return buf.push(' ',node.name,'="',node.value.replace(/[<&"]/g,_xmlEncoder),'"');
 	case TEXT_NODE:
-		return buf.push(node.data.replace(/[<&]/g,_xmlEncoder));
+		return buf.push(node.data.replace(/[<&]/g,_xmlEncoder).replace(/\]\]>/g,']]'+_xmlEncoder('>')));
 	case CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
 		return buf.push( '<![CDATA[',node.data,']]>');
 	case COMMENT_NODE:
diff --git a/test/dom/serializer.js b/test/dom/serializer.js
index d9df5b9..407d44e 100644
--- a/test/dom/serializer.js
+++ b/test/dom/serializer.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ wows.describe('XML Serializer').addBatch({
   'text node containing "]]>"': function() {
     var doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString('<test/>', 'text/xml');
     doc.documentElement.appendChild(doc.createTextNode('hello ]]> there'));
-    console.assert(doc.documentElement.firstChild.toString() == 'hello ]]> there',doc.documentElement.firstChild.toString());
+    console.assert(doc.documentElement.firstChild.toString() == 'hello ]]&gt; there',doc.documentElement.firstChild.toString());
   },
   '<script> element with no children': function() {
     var doc = new DOMParser({xmlns:{xmlns:'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'}}).parseFromString('<html2><script></script></html2>', 'text/html');