diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 643e5e07c..1e9c53e38 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Andreas Ames
 Andreas Mross
 Andrew Everitt
 Andrey Urazov
+Andy Wood
 Anil K. Vijendran
 Anli Shundi
 Anthony Goubard
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index acc8fe6f4..0f6ad59f2 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * Recursive filtering encountered NullPointerExceptions under certain
   circumstances.  Bugzilla 41086.
 
+* XmlProperty overrides previously set property value when handling duplicate 
+  elements. Bugzilla 41080.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
diff --git a/contributors.xml b/contributors.xml
index 0824884c9..18b55643d 100644
--- a/contributors.xml
+++ b/contributors.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
     <first>Andrey</first>
     <last>Urazov</last>
   </name>
+  <name>
+    <first>Andy</first>
+    <last>Wood</last>
+  </name>
   <name>
     <first>Anil</first>
     <middle>K.</middle>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
index 26d9ee361..aaec951c1 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
@@ -499,10 +499,13 @@ public class XmlProperty extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
             // to allow other properties to reference them.
             value = (String) addedAttributes.get(name) + "," + value;
             getProject().setProperty(name, value);
-        } else {
+            addedAttributes.put(name, value);
+        } else if (getProject().getProperty(name) == null) {
             getProject().setNewProperty(name, value);
+            addedAttributes.put(name, value);
+        } else {
+            log("Override ignored for property " + name, Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
         }
-        addedAttributes.put(name, value);
         if (id != null) {
             getProject().addReference(id, value);
         }
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/xmlproperty-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/xmlproperty-test.xml
index c2fa0fa6c..6b1407c54 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/xmlproperty-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/xmlproperty-test.xml
@@ -6,5 +6,12 @@
       <equals arg1="" arg2="${project.description}"/>
     </au:assertTrue>
   </target>
+  <target name="test-multi">
+    <property name="root.element.value" value="original"/>
+    <xmlproperty file="xmlproperty.multi.xml" collapseAttributes="yes"/>
+    <au:assertTrue>
+      <equals arg1="original" arg2="${root.element.value}"/>
+    </au:assertTrue>
+  </target>
 </project>