--- xmlto-0.0.26.old/xmlto.in
+++ xmlto-0.0.26/xmlto.in
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 }
 
 compute_searchpath () {
-  local oldIFS="${IFS}"
+  oldIFS="${IFS}"
   IFS=":"
   for asearchpath in "$1"; do
     # wrangle relative paths into absolute ones so that the user