diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTest.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTest.java
index 8a6533b57e1..6b437f396fa 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTest.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTest.java
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ public class Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTest {
 				"<rootElement><external>&lol9;</external></rootElement>";
 		MockHttpInputMessage inputMessage = new MockHttpInputMessage(content.getBytes("UTF-8"));
 		this.thrown.expect(HttpMessageNotReadableException.class);
-		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE is disallowed");
+		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE");
 		this.converter.read(RootElement.class, inputMessage);
 	}
 
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
index f1c996f63e6..a73e1b18b5f 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverterTests {
 		MockHttpInputMessage inputMessage = new MockHttpInputMessage(content.getBytes("UTF-8"));
 
 		this.thrown.expect(HttpMessageNotReadableException.class);
-		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE is disallowed");
+		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE");
 
 		this.converter.read(DOMSource.class, inputMessage);
 	}
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverterTests {
 		SAXSource result = (SAXSource) this.converter.read(SAXSource.class, inputMessage);
 
 		this.thrown.expect(SAXException.class);
-		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE is disallowed");
+		this.thrown.expectMessage("DOCTYPE");
 
 		InputSource inputSource = result.getInputSource();
 		XMLReader reader = result.getXMLReader();