diff --git a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultDocumentLoader.java b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultDocumentLoader.java
index 0cca9e8be0..cf15a81132 100644
--- a/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultDocumentLoader.java
+++ b/spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/DefaultDocumentLoader.java
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ public class DefaultDocumentLoader implements DocumentLoader {
 		factory.setNamespaceAware(namespaceAware);
 
 		if (validationMode != XmlValidationModeDetector.VALIDATION_NONE) {
-			factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema", false);
 			factory.setValidating(true);
 			if (validationMode == XmlValidationModeDetector.VALIDATION_XSD) {
 				// Enforce namespace aware for XSD...