diff --git a/jdk/test/javax/xml/jaxp/transform/8268457/SurrogateTest.java b/jdk/test/javax/xml/jaxp/transform/8268457/SurrogateTest.java
index 79fa503554..626c81d264 100644
--- a/jdk/test/javax/xml/jaxp/transform/8268457/SurrogateTest.java
+++ b/jdk/test/javax/xml/jaxp/transform/8268457/SurrogateTest.java
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
-import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
 import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ public class SurrogateTest {
     public void toHTMLTest() throws Exception {
         String out = "SurrogateTest1out.html";
         String expected = TEST_SRC + File.separator + "SurrogateTest1.html";
+        String xml = TEST_SRC + File.separator + "SurrogateTest1.xml";
         String xsl = TEST_SRC + File.separator + "SurrogateTest1.xsl";
 
         try (FileInputStream tFis = new FileInputStream(xsl);
-            InputStream fis = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("SurrogateTest1.xml");
+            InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(xml);
             FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(out)) {
 
             Source tSrc = new StreamSource(tFis);
@@ -74,7 +75,9 @@ public void toHTMLTest() throws Exception {
             Result res = new StreamResult(fos);
             t.transform(src, res);
         }
-        compareWithGold(expected, out);
+        if (!compareWithGold(expected, out)) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("toHTMLTest failed");
+        }
     }
 
     public void handlerTest() throws Exception {
@@ -84,15 +87,17 @@ public void handlerTest() throws Exception {
         SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
         TestHandler th = new TestHandler();
         sp.parse(xmlFile, th);
-        compareStringWithGold(TEST_SRC + File.separator + "SurrogateTest2.txt", th.sb.toString());
+        if (!compareLinesWithGold(TEST_SRC + File.separator + "SurrogateTest2.txt", th.lines)) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("handlerTest failed");
+        }
     }
 
     private static class TestHandler extends DefaultHandler {
-        private StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        private List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
 
         @Override
         public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
-            sb.append( localName + "@attr:" + attributes.getValue("attr") + '\n');
+            lines.add( localName + "@attr:" + attributes.getValue("attr"));
         }
     }
 
@@ -122,11 +127,9 @@ public static boolean compareWithGold(String goldfile, String outputfile,
         return isSame;
     }
 
-    // Compare contents of golden file with a test output string.
-    public static boolean compareStringWithGold(String goldfile, String string)
+    // Compare contents of golden file with test output list line by line.
+    public static boolean compareLinesWithGold(String goldfile, List<String> lines)
             throws IOException {
-        return Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(goldfile)).stream().collect(
-                Collectors.joining(System.getProperty("line.separator")))
-                .equals(string);
+        return Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(goldfile)).equals(lines);
     }
 }