diff --git a/runtest.c b/runtest.c
index ab8050ff..f4ead885 100644
--- a/runtest.c
+++ b/runtest.c
@@ -2131,7 +2131,8 @@ noentParseTest(const char *filename, const char *result,
     /*
      * base of the test, parse with the old API
      */
-    doc = xmlReadFile(filename, NULL, options | XML_PARSE_NOWARNING);
+    doc = xmlReadFile(filename, NULL,
+                      options | XML_PARSE_NOWARNING | XML_PARSE_NOERROR);
     if (doc == NULL)
         return(1);
     temp = resultFilename(filename, temp_directory, ".res");
@@ -2148,7 +2149,8 @@ noentParseTest(const char *filename, const char *result,
     /*
      * Parse the saved result to make sure the round trip is okay
      */
-    doc = xmlReadFile(filename, NULL, options | XML_PARSE_NOWARNING);
+    doc = xmlReadFile(filename, NULL,
+                      options | XML_PARSE_NOWARNING | XML_PARSE_NOERROR);
     if (doc == NULL)
         return(1);
     xmlSaveFile(temp, doc);