diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index b1070d3c7..458095d3d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Version 1.3.41 (in progress)
 ============================
 
+2010-02-05: wsfulton
+            Fix #2894405 - assertion when using -xmlout.
+
 2010-01-28: wsfulton
             Fix typemap matching bug when a templated type has a typemap both specialized and not
             specialized. For example:
diff --git a/Source/Modules/main.cxx b/Source/Modules/main.cxx
index 34914efa3..201d42b93 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/main.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/main.cxx
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ char cvsroot_main_cxx[] = "$Id$";
 
 // Global variables
 
-Language *lang;			// Language method
+static Language *lang = 0;	// Language method
 int CPlusPlus = 0;
 int Extend = 0;			// Extend flag
 int ForceExtern = 0;		// Force extern mode
@@ -1231,6 +1231,8 @@ int SWIG_main(int argc, char *argv[], Language *l) {
       Swig_print_tree(Getattr(top, "module"));
     }
     if (dump_xml && top) {
+      delete lang;
+      lang = 0;
       Swig_print_xml(top, xmlout);
     }
     Delete(top);
@@ -1265,6 +1267,9 @@ int SWIG_main(int argc, char *argv[], Language *l) {
   if ((werror) && (Swig_warn_count())) {
     return Swig_warn_count();
   }
+
+  delete lang;
+
   return Swig_error_count();
 }
 
diff --git a/Source/Modules/swigmain.cxx b/Source/Modules/swigmain.cxx
index 4208a8c6f..2acdffa9b 100644
--- a/Source/Modules/swigmain.cxx
+++ b/Source/Modules/swigmain.cxx
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ int main(int margc, char **margv) {
       dl = (fac) ();
     }
   }
+
   int res = SWIG_main(argc, argv, dl);
-  delete dl;
+
   return res;
 }