diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchema.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchema.java
index c4a9c7d9..368c6db0 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchema.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchema.java
@@ -23,10 +23,15 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
 import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 
 import org.apache.ws.commons.schema.XmlSchema;
+import org.apache.ws.commons.schema.XmlSchemaSerializer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException;
+import org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.xml.xsd.XsdSchema;
 
@@ -67,6 +72,19 @@ public class CommonsXsdSchema implements XsdSchema {
     }
 
     public Source getSource() {
+        // try to use the the package-friendly XmlSchemaSerializer first, fall back to slower stream-based version
+        try {
+            XmlSchemaSerializer serializer =
+                    (XmlSchemaSerializer) BeanUtils.instantiateClass(XmlSchemaSerializer.class);
+            Document[] serializesSchemas = serializer.serializeSchema(schema, false);
+            return new DOMSource(serializesSchemas[0]);
+        }
+        catch (BeanInstantiationException ex) {
+            // ignore
+        }
+        catch (XmlSchemaSerializer.XmlSchemaSerializerException ex) {
+            // ignore
+        }
         ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         schema.write(bos);
         ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray());
diff --git a/xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchemaTest.java b/xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchemaTest.java
index 3f143a0e..00f19f83 100644
--- a/xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchemaTest.java
+++ b/xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/xml/xsd/commons/CommonsXsdSchemaTest.java
@@ -32,25 +32,4 @@ public class CommonsXsdSchemaTest extends AbstractXsdSchemaTestCase {
         return new CommonsXsdSchema(schema);
     }
 
-    /*
-    public void testInline() throws Exception {
-        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("A.xsd", AbstractXsdSchemaTestCase.class);
-        CommonsXsdSchema schema = new CommonsXsdSchema(resource);
-        XsdSchema[] inlined = schema.inline();
-        for (int i = 0; i < inlined.length; i++) {
-            transformer.transform(inlined[i].getSource(), new StreamResult(System.out));
-            System.out.println();
-        }
-    }
-
-    public void testCircular() throws Exception {
-        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("circular-1.xsd", AbstractXsdSchemaTestCase.class);
-        CommonsXsdSchema schema = new CommonsXsdSchema(resource);
-        XsdSchema[] inlined = schema.inline();
-        for (int i = 0; i < inlined.length; i++) {
-            transformer.transform(inlined[i].getSource(), new StreamResult(System.out));
-            System.out.println();
-        }
-    }
-    */
 }
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