diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xslf/usermodel/XSLFMetroShape.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xslf/usermodel/XSLFMetroShape.java
index 87278f701..283981d99 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xslf/usermodel/XSLFMetroShape.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/xslf/usermodel/XSLFMetroShape.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.poi.xslf.usermodel;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocumentPart;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.PackagePart;
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ public class XSLFMetroShape {
         try {
             pkg = OPCPackage.open(new ByteArrayInputStream(metroBytes));
             PackagePart shapePart = pkg.getPart(shapePN);
-            CTGroupShape gs = CTGroupShape.Factory.parse(shapePart.getInputStream());
+            CTGroupShape gs = CTGroupShape.Factory.parse(shapePart.getInputStream(), POIXMLDocumentPart.DEFAULT_XML_OPTIONS);
             XSLFGroupShape xgs = new XSLFGroupShape(gs, null);
             return xgs.getShapes().get(0);               
         } finally {