diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactory.java b/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactory.java
index 3b6ff6aba506a706aa6c09cc66c6d9a87e1f66bb..4c193082956aeba52405e2071eb58a3906ce0988 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactory.java
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ public class XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactory {
 		try {
 			documentBuilderFactory.setFeature(DISALLOW_DOCTYPE_DECL_FEATURE_URL, true);
 			documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+			documentBuilderFactory.setXIncludeAware(false);
 			documentBuilderFactory.setSchema(createSchema());
 			log.debug("Creating new document builder...");
 			var documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactoryTest.java b/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactoryTest.java
index 723de052ef5cbc4d9796fe8179329e33b70045e7..bab7fcace625823c664710ce621f98ddf3ee31bb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactoryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ozgcloud/xta/client/xdomea/XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactoryTest.java
@@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ class XdomeaXtaMessageCreatorFactoryTest {
 			verify(documentBuilderFactory).setFeature(DISALLOW_DOCTYPE_DECL_FEATURE_URL, true);
 		}
 
+		@DisplayName("should not process XInclude markup")
+		@Test
+		@SneakyThrows
+		void shouldNotProcessXIncludeMarkup() {
+			setupMocks();
+
+			factory.create();
+
+			verify(documentBuilderFactory).setXIncludeAware(false);
+		}
+
 		@DisplayName("should set document builder namespace aware")
 		@Test
 		@SneakyThrows