diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.2.4
+
+* 'parseText' becomes 'parseText'/'parseTextPos', depending on the output type [#47](https://github.com/snoyberg/xml/pull/47)
+
 ## 1.2.3.3
 
 * Allow blaze-builder 0.4
diff --git a/Text/XML.hs b/Text/XML.hs
--- a/Text/XML.hs
+++ b/Text/XML.hs
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
 sinkTextDoc :: MonadThrow m
             => ParseSettings
             -> Consumer Text m Document
-sinkTextDoc ps = P.parseText ps =$= fromEvents
+sinkTextDoc ps = P.parseTextPos ps =$= fromEvents
 
 fromEvents :: MonadThrow m => Consumer P.EventPos m Document
 fromEvents = do
diff --git a/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs b/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs
--- a/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs
+++ b/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@
     ( -- * Parsing XML files
       parseBytes
     , parseBytesPos
+    , parseText'
     , parseText
+    , parseTextPos
     , detectUtf
     , parseFile
     , parseLBS
@@ -243,7 +245,7 @@
 -- provided by libxml-enumerator. However, this has the advantage of not
 -- relying on any C libraries.
 --
--- This relies on 'detectUtf' to determine character encoding, and 'parseText'
+-- This relies on 'detectUtf' to determine character encoding, and 'parseText''
 -- to do the actual parsing.
 parseBytes :: MonadThrow m
            => ParseSettings
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@
 parseBytesPos :: MonadThrow m
               => ParseSettings
               -> Conduit S.ByteString m EventPos
-parseBytesPos ps = detectUtf =$= parseText ps
+parseBytesPos ps = detectUtf =$= parseTextPos ps
 
 dropBOM :: Monad m => Conduit TS.Text m TS.Text
 dropBOM =
@@ -274,10 +276,26 @@
 -- messages do not give line/column information, so you may prefer to stick
 -- with the parser provided by libxml-enumerator. However, this has the
 -- advantage of not relying on any C libraries.
+--
+-- Since 1.2.4
+parseText' :: MonadThrow m
+           => ParseSettings
+           -> Conduit TS.Text m Event
+parseText' = mapOutput snd . parseTextPos
+
+{-# DEPRECATED parseText "Please use 'parseText'' or 'parseTextPos'." #-}
 parseText :: MonadThrow m
           => ParseSettings
           -> Conduit TS.Text m EventPos
-parseText de =
+parseText = parseTextPos
+
+-- | Same as 'parseText'', but includes the position of each event.
+--
+-- Since 1.2.4
+parseTextPos :: MonadThrow m
+          => ParseSettings
+          -> Conduit TS.Text m EventPos
+parseTextPos de =
     dropBOM
         =$= tokenize
         =$= toEventC de
diff --git a/Text/XML/Unresolved.hs b/Text/XML/Unresolved.hs
--- a/Text/XML/Unresolved.hs
+++ b/Text/XML/Unresolved.hs
@@ -262,4 +262,4 @@
 sinkTextDoc :: MonadThrow m
             => ParseSettings
             -> Consumer Text m Document
-sinkTextDoc ps = P.parseText ps =$= fromEvents
+sinkTextDoc ps = P.parseTextPos ps =$= fromEvents
diff --git a/xml-conduit.cabal b/xml-conduit.cabal
--- a/xml-conduit.cabal
+++ b/xml-conduit.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:            xml-conduit
-version:         1.2.3.3
+version:         1.2.4
 license:         BSD3
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb@googlemail.com>