diff --git a/infra/prism-impl/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/prism/impl/schema/DomToSchemaProcessor.java b/infra/prism-impl/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/prism/impl/schema/DomToSchemaProcessor.java
index def44c8aa2d..a5d6d1fb0fe 100644
--- a/infra/prism-impl/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/prism/impl/schema/DomToSchemaProcessor.java
+++ b/infra/prism-impl/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/prism/impl/schema/DomToSchemaProcessor.java
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ private XSSchemaSet parseSchema(Element schema) throws SchemaException {
 			// Make sure that the schema parser sees all the namespace declarations
 			DOMUtil.fixNamespaceDeclarations(schema);
 			try {
-				TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+				TransformerFactory transfac = DOMUtil.setupTransformerFactory();
 				Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
 				trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "no");
 				trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
diff --git a/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtil.java b/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtil.java
index 3226772e3e5..48ad02c6a19 100644
--- a/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtil.java
+++ b/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtil.java
@@ -171,27 +171,7 @@ public class DOMUtil {
 
 		transformerThreadLocal = ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> {
 			try {
-				//setTransformerFactoryIfPresent("com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl");            // too many whitespaces in Java11
-				//setTransformerFactoryIfPresent("org.apache.xalan.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl");                             // too few whitespaces
-
-				String className = "org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl";
-				setTransformerFactoryIfPresent(className);                               											// a bit slower
-
-				ClassLoader cl = null;
-				try {
-					Class clazz = Class.forName(className);
-					if (clazz != null) {
-						cl = clazz.getClassLoader();
-					}
-				} catch (Exception ex) {
-				}
-
-				TransformerFactory transformerFactory;
-				if (cl != null) {
-					transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(className, cl);
-				} else {
-					transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
-				}
+				TransformerFactory transformerFactory = setupTransformerFactory();
 
 				//System.out.println("TF = " + transformerFactory.getClass().getName());
 				Transformer trans = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
@@ -205,7 +185,19 @@ public class DOMUtil {
 		});
 	}
 
+	public static TransformerFactory setupTransformerFactory() {
+		//setTransformerFactoryIfPresent("com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl");            // too many whitespaces in Java11
+		//setTransformerFactoryIfPresent("org.apache.xalan.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl");                             // too few whitespaces
+		setTransformerFactoryIfPresent("org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl");                               											// a bit slower
+
+		return TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+	}
+
 	private static void setTransformerFactoryIfPresent(String className) {
+		if (!DOMUtilSettings.isAddTransformerFactorySystemProperty()) {
+			return;
+		}
+
 		String propertyName = TransformerFactory.class.getName();
 		try {
 			Class.forName(className);
diff --git a/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtilSettings.java b/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtilSettings.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99c8c12506d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infra/util/src/main/java/com/evolveum/midpoint/util/DOMUtilSettings.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2010-2019 Evolveum
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.evolveum.midpoint.util;
+
+/**
+ * Created by Viliam Repan (lazyman).
+ */
+public class DOMUtilSettings {
+
+    private static boolean addTransformerFactorySystemProperty = true;
+
+    public static boolean isAddTransformerFactorySystemProperty() {
+        return addTransformerFactorySystemProperty;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Method used by MidPoint Studio to disable setting system property during {@link DOMUtil} initialization.
+     * Not used within MidPoint as the default "true" value doesn't change the initialization behaviour.
+     *
+     * @param addTransformerFactorySystemProperty
+     */
+    public static void setAddTransformerFactorySystemProperty(boolean addTransformerFactorySystemProperty) {
+        DOMUtilSettings.addTransformerFactorySystemProperty = addTransformerFactorySystemProperty;
+    }
+}