diff --git a/packages/libxml/src/xml2.pas b/packages/libxml/src/xml2.pas
index dd021e9cff..7ef2265cfa 100644
--- a/packages/libxml/src/xml2.pas
+++ b/packages/libxml/src/xml2.pas
@@ -355,6 +355,11 @@ initialization
   LoadExternalVariables;
 {$ENDIF}
 
+(*
+ * overloading the memory functions
+ *)
+  xmlMemSetup(@fpcxmlFree, @fpcxmlMalloc, @fpcxmlRealloc, @fpcxmlStrdup);
+
 (*
  * this initialize the library and check potential ABI mismatches
  * between the version it was compiled for and the actual shared
@@ -362,11 +367,6 @@ initialization
  *)
   LIBXML_TEST_VERSION;
 
-(*
- * overloading the memory functions
- *)
-  xmlMemSetup(@fpcxmlFree, @fpcxmlMalloc, @fpcxmlRealloc, @fpcxmlStrdup);
-
 (*
  * overloading the error functions
  *)
@@ -377,11 +377,11 @@ finalization
 (*
  * Cleanup function for the XML library.
  *)
-  //xmlCleanupParser();
+  xmlCleanupParser();
 
 (*
  * this is to debug memory for regression tests
  *)
-  xmlMemoryDump();
+  //xmlMemoryDump();
 
 end.