diff --git a/src/datastore_mad/remotes/xpath.rb b/src/datastore_mad/remotes/xpath.rb
index 9a330d7247..ab8af35356 100755
--- a/src/datastore_mad/remotes/xpath.rb
+++ b/src/datastore_mad/remotes/xpath.rb
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ tmp = Base64::decode64(tmp64)
 xml = REXML::Document.new(tmp).root
 
 ARGV.each do |xpath|
-	element = xml.elements[xpath]
+	element = xml.elements[xpath.dup]
     values << element.text.to_s if !element.nil?
     values << "\0"
 end