diff --git a/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/util/PacketParserUtils.java b/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/util/PacketParserUtils.java
index 0dc960583..a2e965777 100644
--- a/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/util/PacketParserUtils.java
+++ b/smack-core/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smack/util/PacketParserUtils.java
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ public class PacketParserUtils {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns the textual content of an element as String.
+     * Returns the textual content of an element as String. After this method returns the parser
+     * position will be END_TAG, following the established pull parser calling convention.
      * <p>
      * The parser must be positioned on a START_TAG of an element which MUST NOT contain Mixed
      * Content (as defined in XML 3.2.2), or else an XmlPullParserException will be thrown.
diff --git a/smack-experimental/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smackx/json/provider/AbstractJsonExtensionProvider.java b/smack-experimental/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smackx/json/provider/AbstractJsonExtensionProvider.java
index 821557017..ab96a7d0b 100644
--- a/smack-experimental/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smackx/json/provider/AbstractJsonExtensionProvider.java
+++ b/smack-experimental/src/main/java/org/jivesoftware/smackx/json/provider/AbstractJsonExtensionProvider.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /**
  *
- * Copyright © 2014 Florian Schmaus
+ * Copyright © 2014-2015 Florian Schmaus
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractJsonExtensionProvider extends ExtensionElementProv
     public AbstractJsonPacketExtension parse(XmlPullParser parser, int initialDepth) throws XmlPullParserException,
                     IOException, SmackException {
         String json = PacketParserUtils.parseElementText(parser);
-        parser.next();
         return from(json);
     }