diff --git a/test/xml/test_entity_reference.rb b/test/xml/test_entity_reference.rb

index 04e2490..b28fb7e 100644

--- a/test/xml/test_entity_reference.rb

+++ b/test/xml/test_entity_reference.rb

@@ -236,14 +236,7 @@ EOF

         reader = Nokogiri::XML::Reader html, path do |cfg|

           cfg.default_xml

         end

-        if Nokogiri.uses_libxml? && Nokogiri::LIBXML_PARSER_VERSION.to_i >= 20900

-          # Unknown entity is not fatal in libxml2 >= 2.9

-          assert_equal 8, reader.count

-        else

-          assert_raises(Nokogiri::XML::SyntaxError) {

-            assert_equal 5, reader.count

-          }

-        end

+        assert_equal 8, reader.count

         assert_operator reader.errors.size, :>, 0

       end

     end

-- 

2.7.4