1diff --git a/tests/base.py b/tests/base.py
2index b05de1d..5ec356f 100644
3--- a/tests/base.py
4+++ b/tests/base.py
5@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ class TestMemoryLeaks(unittest.TestCase):
6
7 def load_xml(self, name, xpath=None):
8 """returns xml.etree"""
9+ etree.set_default_parser(parser=etree.XMLParser())
10 root = etree.parse(self.path(name)).getroot()
11 if xpath is None:
12 return root
13diff --git a/tests/test_doc_examples.py b/tests/test_doc_examples.py
14index 2fc490f..53d2377 100644
15--- a/tests/test_doc_examples.py
16+++ b/tests/test_doc_examples.py
17@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ def test_doc_example(example):
18 """
19 with cd(example.parent):
20 runpy.run_path(str(example))
21+ from lxml import etree
22+ etree.set_default_parser(parser=etree.XMLParser())