diff --git a/src/XMakeBuildEngine/UnitTests/Construction/ElementLocation_Tests.cs b/src/XMakeBuildEngine/UnitTests/Construction/ElementLocation_Tests.cs
index 2ed1a695026..6dcc3cc7962 100644
--- a/src/XMakeBuildEngine/UnitTests/Construction/ElementLocation_Tests.cs
+++ b/src/XMakeBuildEngine/UnitTests/Construction/ElementLocation_Tests.cs
@@ -103,11 +103,7 @@ public void Equality()
         /// Check it will use large element location when it should.
         /// Using file as BIZARRELY XmlTextReader+StringReader crops or trims.
         /// </summary>
-#if RUNTIME_TYPE_NETCORE
-        [Fact(Skip = "https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/270")]
-#else
         [Fact]
-#endif
         public void TestLargeElementLocationUsedLargeColumn()
         {
             string file = null;
@@ -135,11 +131,7 @@ public void TestLargeElementLocationUsedLargeColumn()
         /// Check it will use large element location when it should.
         /// Using file as BIZARRELY XmlTextReader+StringReader crops or trims.
         /// </summary>
-#if RUNTIME_TYPE_NETCORE
-        [Fact(Skip = "https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/270")]
-#else
         [Fact]
-#endif
         public void TestLargeElementLocationUsedLargeLine()
         {
             string file = null;
diff --git a/src/XMakeBuildEngine/Xml/ProjectXmlUtilities.cs b/src/XMakeBuildEngine/Xml/ProjectXmlUtilities.cs
index 79a2b26cbc5..9a551bedffd 100644
--- a/src/XMakeBuildEngine/Xml/ProjectXmlUtilities.cs
+++ b/src/XMakeBuildEngine/Xml/ProjectXmlUtilities.cs
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ private static List<XmlElementWithLocation> GetChildElements(XmlElementWithLocat
                         break;
 
                     default:
+                        if (child.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text && String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(child.InnerText))
+                        {
+                            // If the text is greather than 4k and only contains whitespace, the XML reader will assume it's a text node
+                            // instead of ignoring it.  Our call to String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() can be a little slow if the text is
+                            // large but this should be extremely rare.
+                            break;
+                        }
                         if (throwForInvalidNodeTypes)
                         {
                             ThrowProjectInvalidChildElement(child.Name, element.Name, element.Location);