diff --git a/oxutils/html.py b/oxutils/html.py
index 7f2a380..6de8423 100644
--- a/oxutils/html.py
+++ b/oxutils/html.py
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ def decodeHtml(html):
   >>> decodeHtml('me & you and $&%')
   u'me & you and $&%'
   """
-  if type(text) != unicode:
-   text = unicode(text)[:]
-  if type(text) is unicode:
+  if type(html) != unicode:
+   html = unicode(html)[:]
+  if type(html) is unicode:
     uchr = unichr
   else:
     uchr = lambda value: value > 255 and unichr(value) or chr(value)
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def decodeHtml(html):
       return uchr(name2codepoint[entity])
     else:
       return match.group(0)
-  return charrefpat.sub(entitydecode, text).replace(u'\xa0', ' ')
+  return charrefpat.sub(entitydecode, html).replace(u'\xa0', ' ')
 
 def highlight(text, query, hlClass="hl"):
   """