diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e7ff52a53fa..4d24e6accc1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #70715 (Segmentation fault inside soap client). (Laruence)
   . Fixed bug #70709 (SOAP Client generates Segfault). (Laruence)
 
+- XSL:
+  . Fixed bug #70678 (PHP7 returns true when false is expected). (Felipe) 
+
 15 Oct 2015, PHP 7.0.0 RC 5
 
 - Core:
diff --git a/ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c b/ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c
index ffd05522636..acba075340f 100644
--- a/ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c
+++ b/ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static void xsl_ext_function_php(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, int nargs, int t
 				nodep = dom_object_get_node(obj);
 				valuePush(ctxt, xmlXPathNewNodeSet(nodep));
 			} else if (Z_TYPE(retval) == IS_TRUE || Z_TYPE(retval) == IS_FALSE) {
-				valuePush(ctxt, xmlXPathNewBoolean(Z_LVAL(retval)));
+				valuePush(ctxt, xmlXPathNewBoolean(Z_TYPE(retval) == IS_TRUE));
 			} else if (Z_TYPE(retval) == IS_OBJECT) {
 				php_error_docref(NULL, E_WARNING, "A PHP Object cannot be converted to a XPath-string");
 				valuePush(ctxt, xmlXPathNewString((const xmlChar *) ""));