diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 798fb6fe..f1af0218 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Nov  6 16:48:44 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xpointer.c: tried to fix bug #97852 reported by Nicolas Noffke
+
 Sun Nov  3 10:43:44 CET 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am: switched the order of a couple of includes
diff --git a/xpointer.c b/xpointer.c
index b49073a7..4c4cf991 100644
--- a/xpointer.c
+++ b/xpointer.c
@@ -1021,6 +1021,8 @@ xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, xmlChar *name) {
 	
 	xmlXPathRegisterNs(ctxt->context, prefix, URI);
 	CUR_PTR = left;
+	xmlFree(URI);
+	xmlFree(prefix);
 #endif /* XPTR_XMLNS_SCHEME */
     } else {
         xmlGenericError(xmlGenericErrorContext,