diff --git a/test/html4/test_document.rb b/test/html4/test_document.rb
index 988989f5f10..7e05fc25b68 100644
--- a/test/html4/test_document.rb
+++ b/test/html4/test_document.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def test_exceptions_remove_newlines
           refute_empty(errors, "has errors")
           errors.each do |error|
             assert_equal(error.to_s.chomp, error.to_s)
+            assert_nil(error.path)
           end
         end
 
@@ -813,6 +814,7 @@ def test_silencing_nonparse_errors_during_attribute_insertion_1262
                   Nokogiri::HTML4.parse(input, nil, nil, parse_options)
                 end
                 assert_match(/Parser without recover option encountered error or warning/, exception.to_s)
+                assert_nil(exception.path)
               end
             end
 
@@ -835,6 +837,7 @@ def test_silencing_nonparse_errors_during_attribute_insertion_1262
                   Nokogiri::HTML4.parse(input, nil, "UTF-8", parse_options)
                 end
                 assert_match(/Parser without recover option encountered error or warning/, exception.to_s)
+                assert_nil(exception.path)
               end
             end
 
diff --git a/test/xml/test_document.rb b/test/xml/test_document.rb
index 65589d80d3d..2860c99a798 100644
--- a/test/xml/test_document.rb
+++ b/test/xml/test_document.rb
@@ -1087,9 +1087,10 @@ def test_can_be_closed
               let(:parse_options) { xml_strict }
 
               it "raises exception on parse error" do
-                assert_raises Nokogiri::SyntaxError do
+                error = assert_raises Nokogiri::SyntaxError do
                   Nokogiri::XML.parse(input, nil, nil, parse_options)
                 end
+                assert_nil(error.path)
               end
             end