diff --git a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/schemavalidate.xml b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/schemavalidate.xml
index 13cbb921c..2e8fc8461 100644
--- a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/schemavalidate.xml
+++ b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/schemavalidate.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@
     </schemavalidate>
   </target>  
   
+  <target name="testFileset">
+    <schemavalidate noNamespaceFile="${doc.xsd}"
+      >
+      <schema namespace="${namespace}" file="${doc-in-ns.xsd}" />
+      <fileset dir="xml" 
+        includes="endpiece.xml, endpiece-ns-no-location.xml, endpiece-no-schema.xml" />
+    </schemavalidate>
+  </target>  
+  
   
   <target name="default" depends="testNoNamespace,testNSMapping" />
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
index fd70471b9..0002f709d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ public class XMLValidateTask extends Task {
                 "Specify at least one source - " + "a file or a fileset.");
         }
 
-        initValidator();
+
 
         if (file != null) {
             if (file.exists() && file.canRead() && file.isFile()) {
@@ -518,7 +518,10 @@ public class XMLValidateTask extends Task {
     /**
      * parse the file
      */
-    protected void doValidate(File afile) {
+    protected boolean doValidate(File afile) {
+        //for every file, we have a new instance of the validator
+        initValidator();
+
         try {
             log("Validating " + afile.getName() + "... ", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
             errorHandler.init(afile);
@@ -526,6 +529,7 @@ public class XMLValidateTask extends Task {
             String uri = FILE_UTILS.toURI(afile.getAbsolutePath());
             is.setSystemId(uri);
             xmlReader.parse(is);
+            return true;
         } catch (SAXException ex) {
             log("Caught when validating: " + ex.toString(), Project.MSG_DEBUG);
             if (failOnError) {
@@ -548,6 +552,8 @@ public class XMLValidateTask extends Task {
                 log(afile + " is not a valid XML document", Project.MSG_ERR);
             }
         }
+        //if we got here. it was as a result of a caught and logged exception.
+        return false;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/SchemaValidateTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/SchemaValidateTest.java
index 7b4f64a13..e763a9dec 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/SchemaValidateTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/SchemaValidateTest.java
@@ -92,4 +92,7 @@ public class SchemaValidateTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testEqualsSchemasOK");
     }
 
+    public void testFileset() throws Exception {
+        executeTarget("testFileset");
+    }
 }