diff --git a/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/JaxenXPathExpressionFactory.java b/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/JaxenXPathExpressionFactory.java
index a2aa2fa9..d9265504 100644
--- a/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/JaxenXPathExpressionFactory.java
+++ b/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/JaxenXPathExpressionFactory.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2005-2014 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2005-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  * Jaxen-specific factory for creating {@code XPathExpression}s.
  *
  * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ * @author Greg Turnquist
  * @see #createXPathExpression(String)
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ abstract class JaxenXPathExpressionFactory {
 	static XPathExpression createXPathExpression(String expression) {
 		try {
 			XPath xpath = new DOMXPath(expression);
-			return new JaxenXpathExpression(xpath);
+			return new JaxenXpathExpression(xpath, expression);
 		}
 		catch (JaxenException ex) {
 			throw new org.springframework.xml.xpath.XPathParseException(
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ abstract class JaxenXPathExpressionFactory {
 		try {
 			XPath xpath = new DOMXPath(expression);
 			xpath.setNamespaceContext(new SimpleNamespaceContext(namespaces));
-			return new JaxenXpathExpression(xpath);
+			return new JaxenXpathExpression(xpath, expression);
 		}
 		catch (JaxenException ex) {
 			throw new org.springframework.xml.xpath.XPathParseException(
@@ -78,9 +79,16 @@ abstract class JaxenXPathExpressionFactory {
 	private static class JaxenXpathExpression implements XPathExpression {
 
 		private XPath xpath;
+		private final String expression;
 
-		private JaxenXpathExpression(XPath xpath) {
+		private JaxenXpathExpression(XPath xpath, String expression) {
 			this.xpath = xpath;
+			this.expression = expression;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public String toString() {
+			return expression;
 		}
 
 		@Override
diff --git a/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory.java b/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory.java
index 694f51a0..3b06e2db 100644
--- a/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory.java
+++ b/spring-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2005-2014 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2005-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import org.springframework.xml.namespace.SimpleNamespaceContext;
  * JAXP 1.3-specific factory creating {@link XPathExpression} objects.
  *
  * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ * @author Greg Turnquist
  * @see #createXPathExpression(String)
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ abstract class Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory {
 		try {
 			XPath xpath = createXPath();
 			javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression xpathExpression = xpath.compile(expression);
-			return new Jaxp13XPathExpression(xpathExpression);
+			return new Jaxp13XPathExpression(xpathExpression, expression);
 		}
 		catch (XPathExpressionException ex) {
 			throw new org.springframework.xml.xpath.XPathParseException(
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ abstract class Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory {
 			namespaceContext.setBindings(namespaces);
 			xpath.setNamespaceContext(namespaceContext);
 			javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression xpathExpression = xpath.compile(expression);
-			return new Jaxp13XPathExpression(xpathExpression);
+			return new Jaxp13XPathExpression(xpathExpression, expression);
 		}
 		catch (XPathExpressionException ex) {
 			throw new org.springframework.xml.xpath.XPathParseException(
@@ -93,9 +94,16 @@ abstract class Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory {
 	private static class Jaxp13XPathExpression implements XPathExpression {
 
 		private final javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression xpathExpression;
+		private final String expression;
 
-		private Jaxp13XPathExpression(javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression xpathExpression) {
+		private Jaxp13XPathExpression(javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression xpathExpression, String expression) {
 			this.xpathExpression = xpathExpression;
+			this.expression = expression;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public String toString() {
+			return expression;
 		}
 
 		@Override
diff --git a/spring-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase.java b/spring-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase.java
index c9e075ba..be946713 100644
--- a/spring-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase.java
+++ b/spring-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2005-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2005-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 
-import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
-
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -34,6 +32,8 @@ import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+
 public abstract class AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase {
 
 	private Document noNamespacesDocument;
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ public abstract class AbstractXPathExpressionFactoryTestCase {
 		}
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void testThatToStringReturnsOriginalXpathExpression() {
+		XPathExpression expression = createXPathExpression("/prefix1:root/prefix2:otherchild", namespaces);
+		Assert.assertEquals("/prefix1:root/prefix2:otherchild", expression.toString());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void testEvaluateAsBooleanInvalidNamespaces() throws IOException, SAXException {
 		XPathExpression expression = createXPathExpression("/prefix1:root/prefix2:otherchild", namespaces);