Index: lib/WindowsManifest/WindowsManifestMerger.cpp
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--- lib/WindowsManifest/WindowsManifestMerger.cpp
+++ lib/WindowsManifest/WindowsManifestMerger.cpp
@@ -652,11 +652,13 @@
     xmlNodePtr CombinedRoot = xmlDocGetRootElement(CombinedDoc);
     std::vector<xmlNsPtr> RequiredPrefixes;
     checkAndStripPrefixes(CombinedRoot, RequiredPrefixes);
-    std::unique_ptr<xmlDoc> OutputDoc(xmlNewDoc((const unsigned char *)"1.0"));
+    std::unique_ptr<xmlDoc, decltype(&xmlFreeDoc)> OutputDoc(
+        xmlNewDoc((const unsigned char *)"1.0"), &xmlFreeDoc);
     xmlDocSetRootElement(OutputDoc.get(), CombinedRoot);
     xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0);
     xmlDocDumpFormatMemoryEnc(OutputDoc.get(), &XmlBuff, &BufferSize, "UTF-8",
                               1);
+    xmlDocSetRootElement(OutputDoc.get(), nullptr);
   }
   if (BufferSize == 0)
     return nullptr;