diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c6770c2d4..24fc431c8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ Bugs fixed
 Other changes
 -------------
 
+* In the public C-API, ``findOrBuildNodeNs()`` was replaced by the more
+  generic ``findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix``
+
 * major refactoring in XPath/XSLT extension function code
 
 
diff --git a/TODO.txt b/TODO.txt
index 48d50c92d..8eddc7ebe 100644
--- a/TODO.txt
+++ b/TODO.txt
@@ -62,9 +62,6 @@ lxml 2.0
 
 * always use ns-prefixed type names in objectify's ``xsi:type`` attributes
 
-* remove ``findOrBuildNodeNs()`` from C-API (replaced by
-  findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix)
-
 * follow PEP 8 in API naming (avoidCamelCase in_favour_of_underscores)
 
 * clean support for entities (is the Entity element class enough?)
diff --git a/src/lxml/etreepublic.pxd b/src/lxml/etreepublic.pxd
index 839aeef47..db0eb27df 100644
--- a/src/lxml/etreepublic.pxd
+++ b/src/lxml/etreepublic.pxd
@@ -197,10 +197,6 @@ cdef extern from "etree.h":
     # append an element to the children of a parent element
     cdef void appendChild(_Element parent, _Element child)
 
-    # recursively lookup a namespace in element or ancestors, or create it
-    cdef tree.xmlNs* findOrBuildNodeNs(_Document doc, tree.xmlNode* c_node,
-                                       char* href)
-
     # recursively lookup a namespace in element or ancestors, or create it
     cdef tree.xmlNs* findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix(
         _Document doc, tree.xmlNode* c_node, char* href, char* prefix)
diff --git a/src/lxml/public-api.pxi b/src/lxml/public-api.pxi
index a22d0e752..f4d4079e5 100644
--- a/src/lxml/public-api.pxi
+++ b/src/lxml/public-api.pxi
@@ -137,12 +137,6 @@ cdef public void iteratorStoreNext(_ElementIterator iterator, _Element node):
 cdef public void initTagMatch(_ElementTagMatcher matcher, tag):
     matcher._initTagMatch(tag)
 
-cdef public tree.xmlNs* findOrBuildNodeNs(_Document doc, xmlNode* c_node,
-                                          char* href) except NULL:
-    if doc is None:
-        raise TypeError
-    return doc._findOrBuildNodeNs(c_node, href, NULL)
-
 cdef public tree.xmlNs* findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix(
     _Document doc, xmlNode* c_node, char* href, char* prefix) except NULL:
     if doc is None: