diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
index 864340dbda..275637a79d 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Crawler.php
@@ -195,9 +195,7 @@ class Crawler extends \SplObjectStorage
 
         $dom = new \DOMDocument('1.0', $charset);
         $dom->validateOnParse = true;
-
-        // remove the default namespace to make XPath expressions simpler
-        @$dom->loadXML(str_replace('xmlns=', 'ns=', $content), LIBXML_NONET);
+        @$dom->loadXML($content, LIBXML_NONET);
 
         libxml_use_internal_errors($current);
         libxml_disable_entity_loader($disableEntities);