---
 tests/base.py              |    1 +
 tests/test_doc_examples.py |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/tests/base.py
+++ b/tests/base.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ class TestMemoryLeaks(unittest.TestCase)
 
     def load_xml(self, name, xpath=None):
         """returns xml.etree"""
+        etree.set_default_parser(parser=etree.XMLParser())
         root = etree.parse(self.path(name)).getroot()
         if xpath is None:
             return root
--- a/tests/test_doc_examples.py
+++ b/tests/test_doc_examples.py
@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ def test_doc_example(example):
     """
     with cd(example.parent):
         runpy.run_path(str(example))
+    from lxml import etree
+    etree.set_default_parser(parser=etree.XMLParser())