diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index bbe806a..0515d78 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Suggests:
     magrittr,
     mockery,
     rmarkdown,
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0)
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
+    withr
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
 Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-xml_parse.R b/tests/testthat/test-xml_parse.R
index 2ff6e6c..7e9ef27 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-xml_parse.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-xml_parse.R
@@ -110,3 +110,12 @@ test_that("read_xml and read_html fail with > 1 input", {
     read_html(c("foo", "bar"))
   })
 })
+
+test_that("read_xml with an invalid file allows deletion of the file (#376)", {
+  tmp <- withr::local_tempfile(lines = "<a>")
+
+  n_cons <- nrow(showConnections())
+  try(read_xml(tmp), silent = TRUE)
+  expect_equal(nrow(showConnections()), n_cons)
+  expect_true(file.remove(tmp))
+})