diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3edfd3e0..1df29837 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Aug 25 16:38:05 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xmlIO.c: handle Windows sepecific file://localhost/ semantic ...
+
 Thu Aug 22 22:03:19 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* xpath.c: possible mem leak patch from Jason Adams
diff --git a/xmlIO.c b/xmlIO.c
index a3d73c34..1c2a1226 100644
--- a/xmlIO.c
+++ b/xmlIO.c
@@ -297,7 +297,11 @@ xmlFileOpen (const char *filename) {
     }
 
     if (!xmlStrncasecmp(BAD_CAST filename, BAD_CAST "file://localhost", 16))
+#if defined (_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
+	path = &filename[17];
+#else
 	path = &filename[16];
+#endif
     else if (!xmlStrncasecmp(BAD_CAST filename, BAD_CAST "file:///", 8)) {
 #if defined (_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
 	path = &filename[8];