diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLParser.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLParser.php
index bb33bc12f4da2ccf64c0dc77e017137a865d5949..b876adfd9e48d93f05f4873f6574f421d11f55ec 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLParser.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Metadata/SAMLParser.php
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Metadata_SAMLParser {
 
 		$doc = new DOMDocument();
 
-		$res = @$doc->load($file);
+		$res = $doc->load($file);
 		if($res !== TRUE) {
 			throw new Exception('Failed to read XML from file: ' . $file);
 		}