diff --git a/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp b/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
index f0653766..33662a30 100644
--- a/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
+++ b/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ void ConfigManager::Initialize()
 			}
 		}
 
-        	XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
+		XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
 
 		// By default, the DOM document generated by the parser will be free() by the parser.
 		// If we ever need to free the parser and the document separately, we need to do this:
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void ConfigManager::Initialize()
 		//		doc->release();
 		//		...
 		//		delete parser;
-		XercesDOMParser *m_parser = new XercesDOMParser;
+		m_parser = new XercesDOMParser;
 		XmlErrorHandler errhandler;
 		m_parser->setErrorHandler(&errhandler);
 		m_parser->parse(cfgFilename);