diff --git a/alRawTextCleaning.py b/alRawTextCleaning.py
index 9cd133fac231f638a6023801867684f52a06ef68..a31d875adab3926104347e8c5dbf5cea9b18c0dc 100644
--- a/alRawTextCleaning.py
+++ b/alRawTextCleaning.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def altok_escape_xml(s, do_not_create_XML_special_tokens = 0):
 	s = re.sub(r"(?=\\)(\{[^\{}]*)&lt;", r"\1<", s)
 	s = re.sub(r"(?=\\)(\{[^\{}]*)&gt;", r"\1>", s)
 
-	if do_not_create_XML_special_tokens == 0:
+	if not do_not_create_XML_special_tokens:
 		if re.search(r"_XML", s):
 			s = re.sub(r"\{([^{}]+)\} _XML", lambda x : "{" + _double_whitespaces(x.group(1)) + "} _XML", s)
 	return s