diff --git a/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlexport/ooxmlexport3.cxx b/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlexport/ooxmlexport3.cxx
index 0d4d3f0202e7..2427657744bb 100644
--- a/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlexport/ooxmlexport3.cxx
+++ b/sw/qa/extras/ooxmlexport/ooxmlexport3.cxx
@@ -953,7 +953,8 @@ CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(Test, testcantSplit)
     // writing <w:cantSplit w:val="false"/> during export was causing problem that all the cell data used to come on same page
     xmlDocUniquePtr pXmlDoc = parseExport(u"word/document.xml"_ustr);
     assertXPath(pXmlDoc, "/w:document/w:body/w:tbl[1]/w:tr/w:trPr/w:cantSplit",0);
-    assertXPath(pXmlDoc, "/w:document/w:body/w:tbl[2]/w:tr/w:trPr/w:cantSplit","val",u"true");
+    // this is how true is represented, otherwise OOXML validator complains: <w:cantSplit/>
+    assertXPathNoAttribute(pXmlDoc, "/w:document/w:body/w:tbl[2]/w:tr/w:trPr/w:cantSplit", "val");
 }
 
 CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(Test, testDontSplitTable)
diff --git a/sw/source/filter/ww8/docxtableexport.cxx b/sw/source/filter/ww8/docxtableexport.cxx
index c9ce5f68a6b2..8e718b1c161f 100644
--- a/sw/source/filter/ww8/docxtableexport.cxx
+++ b/sw/source/filter/ww8/docxtableexport.cxx
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ void DocxAttributeOutput::TableCanSplit(
     // if rSplittable is true then no need to write <w:cantSplit w:val="false"/>
     // as default row prop is allow row to break across page.
     if (!rSplittable.GetValue())
-        m_pSerializer->singleElementNS(XML_w, XML_cantSplit, FSNS(XML_w, XML_val), "true");
+        m_pSerializer->singleElementNS(XML_w, XML_cantSplit);
 }
 
 void DocxAttributeOutput::TableBidi(