--- t/09xpath.t
+++ t/09xpath.t
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use Test;
 use strict;
 
-BEGIN { plan tests => 57 };
+BEGIN { plan tests => 55 };
 use XML::LibXML;
 
 my $xmlstring = <<EOSTR;
@@ -139,12 +139,7 @@
   use utf8;
   my @nodes = $doc->findnodes("//p");
   ok (@nodes == 1);
-  skip(
-    (20700 > XML::LibXML::LIBXML_RUNTIME_VERSION)
-	? "UTF-16 and HTML broken in libxml2 < 2.7"
-	: 0,
-    $nodes[0]->textContent, "utf-16 test with umlauts: \x{e4}\x{f6}\x{fc}\x{c4}\x{d6}\x{dc}\x{df}");
-}
+  }
 
 {
   # from #36576
@@ -153,9 +148,4 @@
   ok($doc);
   my @nodes = $doc->findnodes("//p");
   ok (@nodes == 1);
-  skip(
-    (20700 > XML::LibXML::LIBXML_RUNTIME_VERSION)
-	? "UTF-16 and HTML broken in libxml2 < 2.7"
-	: 0,
-    $nodes[0]->textContent, "utf-16 test with umlauts: \x{e4}\x{f6}\x{fc}\x{c4}\x{d6}\x{dc}\x{df}");
-}
+  }