diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5ce6481e..02f04226 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Mar  2 10:33:04 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xmlIO.c: fix bug #72706 when loading a NULL entity
+
 Fri Mar  1 17:14:42 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* SAX.c: Fixed #72346, about handling of xmlns:foo="", this could
diff --git a/xmlIO.c b/xmlIO.c
index 815df620..056beb88 100644
--- a/xmlIO.c
+++ b/xmlIO.c
@@ -2528,6 +2528,8 @@ xmlDefaultExternalEntityLoader(const char *URL, const char *ID,
 	resource = (xmlChar *) URL;
 
     if (resource == NULL) {
+	if (ID == NULL)
+	    ID = "NULL";
 	if ((ctxt->validate) && (ctxt->sax != NULL) && 
             (ctxt->sax->error != NULL))
 	    ctxt->sax->error(ctxt,