diff --git a/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/XMLParser.java b/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/XMLParser.java
index 9b43997..461a9eb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/XMLParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/XMLParser.java
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@
    */
   private static boolean supportsValidation(SAXParserFactory spf) {
     try {
-      spf.getFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation");
-      return true;
+      return spf.getFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation");
     }
     catch(Exception ex) {
       return false;