diff --git a/PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.cpp b/PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.cpp
index 1319a4c27..d2649ffaf 100644
--- a/PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.cpp
+++ b/PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.cpp
@@ -644,6 +644,8 @@ void ScintillaEditView::setXmlLexer(LangType type)
 			execute(SCI_SETKEYWORDS, i, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(TEXT("")));
 
         makeStyle(type);
+
+		execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("lexer.xml.allow.scripts"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>("0"));
 	}
 	else if ((type == L_HTML) || (type == L_PHP) || (type == L_ASP) || (type == L_JSP))
 	{