diff --git a/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketReader.java b/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketReader.java
index d9e2847c5..f744a0a37 100644
--- a/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketReader.java
+++ b/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/PacketReader.java
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ class PacketReader {
         listenerThread.setDaemon(true);
 
         try {
-            XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
+            XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(
+                    "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParserFactory", null);
             factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
             parser = factory.newPullParser();
             parser.setInput(connection.reader);
diff --git a/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/ProviderManager.java b/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/ProviderManager.java
index e30923172..1692df653 100644
--- a/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/ProviderManager.java
+++ b/source/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/ProviderManager.java
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ public class ProviderManager {
                 java.io.InputStream providerStream = null;
                 try {
                     providerStream = url.openStream();
-                    XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
+                    XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(
+                            "org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParserFactory", null);
                     factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
                     XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser();
                     parser.setInput(providerStream, "UTF-8");