diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoRSS.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoRSS.js
index 97fda1ab32..89c8e911b8 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoRSS.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoRSS.js
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ OpenLayers.Format.GeoRSS = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format.XML, {
             geometry = feature.geometry;
         }
         
-        if (this.internalProjection && this.externalProjection) {
+        if (geometry && this.internalProjection && this.externalProjection) {
             geometry.transform(this.externalProjection, 
                                this.internalProjection);
         }
diff --git a/tests/Format/test_GeoRSS.html b/tests/Format/test_GeoRSS.html
index 0f9828a88a..02272bd48a 100644
--- a/tests/Format/test_GeoRSS.html
+++ b/tests/Format/test_GeoRSS.html
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
         t.eq(data[0].geometry.x, -1, "w3c geo x read correctly"); 
         t.eq(data[0].geometry.y, 1, "w3c geo y read correctly"); 
     }
+    function test_Format_GeoRSS_reproject_null(t) { 
+        t.plan(1);
+
+        var parser = new OpenLayers.Format.GeoRSS({'internalProjection':new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"), 'externalProjection': new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")});
+        var data = parser.read('<rss xmlns="http://backend.userland.com/rss2" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"><item></item></rss>');
+        t.eq(data.length, 1, "Parsing items with null geometry and reprojection doesn't fail");
+    }
     function test_Format_GeoRSS_roundtrip(t) {
         t.plan(input.length);
         var parser = new OpenLayers.Format.GeoRSS();