--- obt/xml.c.orig	Mon Aug 12 03:33:24 2013
+++ obt/xml.c	Mon Oct  7 18:29:46 2013
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ static gboolean load_file(ObtXmlInst *i,
 
         if (!domain && !filename) /* given a full path to the file */
             path = g_strdup(it->data);
+        else if (stat(filename, &s) == 0)
+            path = g_strdup(filename);
         else
             path = g_build_filename(it->data, domain, filename, NULL);