diff --git a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromA3.java b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromA3.java
index 6eb0fc08..66787cc3 100644
--- a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromA3.java
+++ b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromA3.java
@@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ public class ZUGFeRDExporterFromA3 extends XRExporter implements IZUGFeRDExporte
 		if ((meta != null) && (meta.getLength() > 0)) {
 			try {
 				DomXmpParser xmpParser = new DomXmpParser();
+				xmpParser.setStrictParsing(false);
 				return xmpParser.parse(meta.toByteArray());
 			} catch (XmpParsingException e) {
 				throw new IOException(e);
diff --git a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromPDFA.java b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromPDFA.java
index e128f0a6..12653cdf 100644
--- a/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromPDFA.java
+++ b/library/src/main/java/org/mustangproject/ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRDExporterFromPDFA.java
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ public class ZUGFeRDExporterFromPDFA implements IZUGFeRDExporter {
 		if (metadata != null) {
 			try {
 				DomXmpParser xmpParser = new DomXmpParser();
+				xmpParser.setStrictParsing(false);
 				XMPMetadata xmp = xmpParser.parse(metadata.createInputStream());
 
 				PDFAIdentificationSchema pdfaSchema = xmp.getPDFAIdentificationSchema();