From aef94414c6ff31a6aef44e960b654b317c1f9d10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Fordham <peter.fordham@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:09:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Initialize pointer incase we end up skipping the while loop
 completely.

---
 xpath.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xpath.c b/xpath.c
index 9f92055df..b8e197cc9 100644
--- a/xpath.c
+++ b/xpath.c
@@ -7910,7 +7910,7 @@ void
 xmlXPathLangFunction(xmlXPathParserContext *ctxt, int nargs) {
     xmlXPathObjectPtr val;
     xmlNodePtr cur;
-    xmlChar *theLang;
+    xmlChar *theLang = NULL;
     const xmlChar *lang;
     int ret = 0;
     int i;