From 9414af20a9f25bcc0cefb084b16c957a7b77a185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: camelto2 <cmelton@sandia.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 17:28:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix libxml leak

---
 src/QMCTools/QMCGaussianParserBase.cpp | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/QMCTools/QMCGaussianParserBase.cpp b/src/QMCTools/QMCGaussianParserBase.cpp
index e6872522c3..0d4717c86b 100644
--- a/src/QMCTools/QMCGaussianParserBase.cpp
+++ b/src/QMCTools/QMCGaussianParserBase.cpp
@@ -1829,7 +1829,10 @@ void QMCGaussianParserBase::dump(const std::string& psi_tag, const std::string&
             {
               createSPOSetsH5(spoupPtr, spodnPtr);
               xmlAddChild(detPtr, spoupPtr);
-              if (!isSpinor)
+              //for spinors, we don't need the spodn so just free it
+              if (isSpinor)
+                xmlFreeNode(spodnPtr);
+              else
                 xmlAddChild(detPtr, spodnPtr);
               xmlNodePtr multislaterdetPtr = NULL;
               if (usingCSF)