diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/validation/XmlValidatorFactory.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/validation/XmlValidatorFactory.java
index ed3a4e0a..f8b06dda 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/validation/XmlValidatorFactory.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/validation/XmlValidatorFactory.java
@@ -38,14 +38,10 @@ public abstract class XmlValidatorFactory {
 
     private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(XmlValidatorFactory.class);
 
-    /**
-     * Constant that defines a W3C XML Schema.
-     */
+    /** Constant that defines a W3C XML Schema. */
     public static final String SCHEMA_W3C_XML = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
 
-    /**
-     * Constant that defines a RELAX NG Schema.
-     */
+    /** Constant that defines a RELAX NG Schema. */
     public static final String SCHEMA_RELAX_NG = "http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0";
 
     /**
@@ -89,11 +85,11 @@ public abstract class XmlValidatorFactory {
             Assert.isTrue(schemaResources[i].exists(), "schema [" + schemaResources[i] + "] does not exist");
         }
         if (JaxpVersion.getJaxpVersion() >= JaxpVersion.JAXP_13) {
-            logger.debug("Creating JAXP 1.3 XmlValidator");
+            logger.trace("Creating JAXP 1.3 XmlValidator");
             return Jaxp13ValidatorFactory.createValidator(schemaResources, schemaLanguage);
         }
         else if (JaxpVersion.getJaxpVersion() >= JaxpVersion.JAXP_10) {
-            logger.debug("Creating JAXP 1.0 XmlValidator");
+            logger.trace("Creating JAXP 1.0 XmlValidator");
             return Jaxp10ValidatorFactory.createValidator(schemaResources, schemaLanguage);
         }
         else {
diff --git a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/XPathExpressionFactory.java b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/XPathExpressionFactory.java
index a66441c2..3052142c 100644
--- a/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/XPathExpressionFactory.java
+++ b/xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/xml/xpath/XPathExpressionFactory.java
@@ -44,14 +44,10 @@ public abstract class XPathExpressionFactory {
     private static boolean jaxenAvailable;
 
     static {
-        // Check whether JAXP 1.3, or Jaxen are available
-        if (JaxpVersion.getJaxpVersion() >= JaxpVersion.JAXP_13) {
-            logger.debug("JAXP 1.3 available");
-        }
+        // Check whether Jaxen is available
         try {
             ClassUtils.forName(JAXEN_CLASS_NAME);
             jaxenAvailable = true;
-            logger.debug("Jaxen available");
         }
         catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
             jaxenAvailable = false;
@@ -85,11 +81,11 @@ public abstract class XPathExpressionFactory {
             throws IllegalStateException, XPathParseException {
         Assert.hasLength(expression, "expression is empty");
         if (JaxpVersion.getJaxpVersion() >= JaxpVersion.JAXP_13) {
-            logger.debug("Creating [javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression]");
+            logger.trace("Creating [javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression]");
             return Jaxp13XPathExpressionFactory.createXPathExpression(expression, namespaces);
         }
         else if (jaxenAvailable) {
-            logger.debug("Creating [org.jaxen.XPath]");
+            logger.trace("Creating [org.jaxen.XPath]");
             return JaxenXPathExpressionFactory.createXPathExpression(expression, namespaces);
         }
         else {