diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.txt b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..53cdf1e9393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PASSED
diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.html b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..97d6fe0863a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/DOM/domparser-parsefromstring-xml-empty-pubid.html
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<script src="../include.js"></script>
+<script>
+    test(() => {
+        var doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "" "this is the system id"><html><div id="test"/></html>', 'application/xhtml+xml');
+        if (doc.getElementById('test')) {
+            println('PASSED');
+        }
+    });
+</script>
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibXML/Parser/Parser.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibXML/Parser/Parser.cpp
index 62a40905747..9a6884f8848 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibXML/Parser/Parser.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibXML/Parser/Parser.cpp
@@ -1544,7 +1544,8 @@ ErrorOr<StringView, ParseError> Parser::parse_public_id_literal()
         [q = quote[0]](auto x) {
             return (q == '\'' ? x != '\'' : true) && s_public_id_characters.contains(x);
         },
-        "a PubidChar"sv));
+        "a PubidChar"sv,
+        true));
     TRY(expect(quote));
 
     rollback.disarm();
