diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GML.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GML.js
index 66fd8cb35c..c7cfa10c88 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GML.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GML.js
@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ OpenLayers.Format.GML = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format.XML, {
             attributes = this.parseAttributes(node);
         }
         var feature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(geometry, attributes);
+        
+        feature.gml = {
+            featureType: node.firstChild.nodeName.split(":")[1],
+            featureNS: node.firstChild.namespaceURI,
+            featureNSPrefix: node.firstChild.prefix
+        };
+                
         // assign fid - this can come from a "fid" or "id" attribute
         var childNode = node.firstChild;
         var fid;