diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fba80fcd..05cfea9a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Aug  3 17:40:13 EDT 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xsltproc/xsltproc.c: minor change, avoid wasting CPU cycles
+
 Sun Aug 3 21:05:07 HKT 2003 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
 
 	Minor cleanup of regression test general/bug-125
diff --git a/xsltproc/xsltproc.c b/xsltproc/xsltproc.c
index ac4ead3a..28a64797 100644
--- a/xsltproc/xsltproc.c
+++ b/xsltproc/xsltproc.c
@@ -163,10 +163,12 @@ xsltprocExternalEntityLoader(const char *URL, const char *ID,
     const char *lastsegment = URL;
     const char *iter = URL;
 
-    while (*iter != 0) {
-        if (*iter == '/')
-	    lastsegment = iter + 1;
-	iter++;
+    if (nbpaths > 0) {
+	while (*iter != 0) {
+	    if (*iter == '/')
+		lastsegment = iter + 1;
+	    iter++;
+	}
     }
 
     if ((ctxt != NULL) && (ctxt->sax != NULL)) {