diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst
index 52340ffe92eb857..e886e08f7b3400d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ Example::
 
    from xml.dom import pulldom
 
-   doc = pulldom.parse('sales_items.xml')
-   for event, node in doc:
-       if event == pulldom.START_ELEMENT and node.tagName == 'item':
-           if int(node.getAttribute('price')) > 50:
-               doc.expandNode(node)
-               print(node.toxml())
+   with pulldom.parse('sales_items.xml') as doc:
+       for event, node in doc:
+           if event == pulldom.START_ELEMENT and node.tagName == 'item':
+               if int(node.getAttribute('price')) > 50:
+                   doc.expandNode(node)
+                   print(node.toxml())
 
 ``event`` is a constant and can be one of:
 
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ DOMEventStream Objects
    .. versionchanged:: 3.11
       Support for :meth:`~object.__getitem__` method has been removed.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: next
+      :class:`DOMEventStream` can now be used as a :term:`context manager`.
+      On exit, :meth:`~DOMEventStream.clear` is called, closing file
+      handles opened by :func:`parse`.
+
    .. method:: getEvent()
 
       Return a tuple containing *event* and the current *node* as
@@ -141,3 +146,15 @@ DOMEventStream Objects
                   print(node.toxml())
 
    .. method:: DOMEventStream.reset()
+
+   .. method:: clear()
+
+      Release references to the parser, the stream and the DOM builder,
+      and close the stream if it was opened by :func:`parse`. Streams
+      provided by the caller are not closed. It is safe to call this
+      method more than once. The event stream cannot be used after
+      calling this method.
+
+      .. versionchanged:: next
+         This method now closes the underlying stream if it was opened
+         by :func:`parse`.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pulldom.py b/Lib/test/test_pulldom.py
index 3c8ed251acaa4d8..7261b5a856919df 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pulldom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pulldom.py
@@ -33,13 +33,39 @@ def test_parse(self):
 
         # Test with a filename:
         handler = pulldom.parse(tstfile)
-        self.addCleanup(handler.stream.close)
+        self.addCleanup(handler.clear)
         list(handler)
 
         # Test with a file object:
         with open(tstfile, "rb") as fin:
             list(pulldom.parse(fin))
 
+    def test_context_manager_closes_owned_stream(self):
+        with pulldom.parse(tstfile) as events:
+            stream = events.stream
+            list(events)
+        self.assertTrue(stream.closed)
+
+    def test_context_manager_does_not_close_user_stream(self):
+        with open(tstfile, 'rb') as f:
+            with pulldom.parse(f) as events:
+                list(events)
+            self.assertFalse(f.closed)
+
+    def test_clear_closes_owned_stream(self):
+        events = pulldom.parse(tstfile)
+        stream = events.stream
+        events.clear()
+        self.assertTrue(stream.closed)
+        events.clear()  # should not raise
+
+    def test_clear_does_not_close_user_stream(self):
+        with open(tstfile, 'rb') as f:
+            events = pulldom.parse(f)
+            list(events)
+            events.clear()
+            self.assertFalse(f.closed)
+
     def test_parse_semantics(self):
         """Test DOMEventStream parsing semantics."""
 
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
index 913141cd7ef3ceb..91aa97546658f98 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/pulldom.py
@@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ def fatalError(self, exception):
         raise exception
 
 class DOMEventStream:
-    def __init__(self, stream, parser, bufsize):
+    def __init__(self, stream, parser, bufsize, _owns_stream=False):
         self.stream = stream
         self.parser = parser
         self.bufsize = bufsize
+        self._owns_stream = _owns_stream
         if not hasattr(self.parser, 'feed'):
             self.getEvent = self._slurp
         self.reset()
@@ -225,6 +226,12 @@ def __next__(self):
     def __iter__(self):
         return self
 
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args):
+        self.clear()
+
     def expandNode(self, node):
         event = self.getEvent()
         parents = [node]
@@ -274,9 +281,15 @@ def _emit(self):
         return rc
 
     def clear(self):
-        """clear(): Explicitly release parsing objects"""
-        self.pulldom.clear()
-        del self.pulldom
+        """Release the parsing objects.
+
+        The stream is closed if it was opened by parse().
+        """
+        if self._owns_stream and self.stream is not None:
+            self.stream.close()
+        if self.pulldom is not None:
+            self.pulldom.clear()
+        self.pulldom = None
         self.parser = None
         self.stream = None
 
@@ -320,11 +333,13 @@ def parse(stream_or_string, parser=None, bufsize=None):
         bufsize = default_bufsize
     if isinstance(stream_or_string, str):
         stream = open(stream_or_string, 'rb')
+        owns_stream = True
     else:
         stream = stream_or_string
+        owns_stream = False
     if not parser:
         parser = xml.sax.make_parser()
-    return DOMEventStream(stream, parser, bufsize)
+    return DOMEventStream(stream, parser, bufsize, _owns_stream=owns_stream)
 
 def parseString(string, parser=None):
     from io import StringIO
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-04-12-11-14-40.gh-issue-148428.kP9qWx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-04-12-11-14-40.gh-issue-148428.kP9qWx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..301b33596c419f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-04-12-11-14-40.gh-issue-148428.kP9qWx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+:class:`xml.dom.pulldom.DOMEventStream` can now be used as a :term:`context
+manager`, and its :meth:`~xml.dom.pulldom.DOMEventStream.clear` method now
+closes the file opened by :func:`xml.dom.pulldom.parse`, fixing a resource
+leak. This also fixes the file handle leak in :func:`xml.dom.minidom.parse`
+when a custom *parser* is used.