diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c0b37284..2ad57d36 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Aug 16 21:31:14 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xpointer.c: removed unused var
+
 Thu Aug 16 18:26:40 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* testXPath.c: another small cleanup closing bug #59110
diff --git a/xpointer.c b/xpointer.c
index 5192fe50..2bc29cbe 100644
--- a/xpointer.c
+++ b/xpointer.c
@@ -2467,7 +2467,6 @@ xmlXPtrSearchString(const xmlChar *string, xmlNodePtr *start, int *startindex,
     const xmlChar *str;
     int pos; /* 0 based */
     int len; /* in bytes */
-    int stringlen; /* in bytes */
     xmlChar first;
 
     if (string == NULL)
@@ -2481,7 +2480,6 @@ xmlXPtrSearchString(const xmlChar *string, xmlNodePtr *start, int *startindex,
 	return(-1);
     pos = *startindex - 1;
     first = string[0];
-    stringlen = xmlStrlen(string);
 
     while (cur != NULL) {
 	if ((cur->type != XML_ELEMENT_NODE) && (cur->content != NULL)) {