diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

index ca0f0f7..eff4f52 100644

--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@ from StringIO import StringIO

 from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest, findfile

 import unittest

+import pyexpat

 import xml.dom

 import xml.dom.minidom

 import xml.parsers.expat

 from xml.dom.minidom import parse, Node, Document, parseString

 from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation

+from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError

 tstfile = findfile("test.xml", subdir="xmltestdata")

@@ -1062,8 +1064,10 @@ class MinidomTest(unittest.TestCase):

         # Verify that character decoding errors raise exceptions instead

         # of crashing

-        self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, parseString,

-                '<fran\xe7ais>Comment \xe7a va ? Tr\xe8s bien ?</fran\xe7ais>')

+        self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

+                '<fran\xe7ais></fran\xe7ais>')

+        self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

+                '<franais>Comment \xe7a va ? Tr\xe8s bien ?</franais>')

         doc.unlink()

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py

index 4e161ca..bf92361 100644

--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py

+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py

@@ -1797,18 +1797,6 @@ def check_issue6233():

     """

-def check_issue3151():

-    """

-

-    >>> e = ET.XML('<prefix:localname xmlns:prefix="${stuff}"/>')

-    >>> e.tag

-    '{${stuff}}localname'

-    >>> t = ET.ElementTree(e)

-    >>> ET.tostring(e)

-    '<ns0:localname xmlns:ns0="${stuff}" />'

-

-    """

-

 def check_issue6565():

     """