diff --git a/Manifest.txt b/Manifest.txt
index f1481134dc..8973ad8fcc 100644
--- a/Manifest.txt
+++ b/Manifest.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ test/xml/test_node_attributes.rb
 test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb
 test/xml/test_node_reparenting.rb
 test/xml/test_node_set.rb
+test/xml/test_node_inheritance.rb
 test/xml/test_parse_options.rb
 test/xml/test_processing_instruction.rb
 test/xml/test_reader_encoding.rb
diff --git a/test/xml/test_node_inheritance.rb b/test/xml/test_node_inheritance.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..760e3329ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/xml/test_node_inheritance.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# issue#560
+
+require 'helper'
+
+module Nokogiri
+  module XML
+    class TestNodeInheritance < Nokogiri::TestCase
+      MyNode = Class.new Nokogiri::XML::Node
+      def setup
+        super
+        @node = MyNode.new 'foo', Nokogiri::XML::Document.new
+        @node['foo'] = 'bar' 
+      end
+
+      def test_node_name
+        assert @node.name == 'foo'
+      end
+
+      def test_node_writing_an_attribute_accessing_via_attributes 
+        assert @node.attributes['foo']
+      end
+
+      def test_node_writing_an_attribute_accessing_via_key 
+        assert @node.key? 'foo'
+      end
+
+      def test_node_writing_an_attribute_accessing_via_brackets 
+        assert @node['foo'] == 'bar'
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end