diff --git a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlFactory.java b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlFactory.java
index 7b5433f4..88718c82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlFactory.java
@@ -167,6 +167,18 @@ public static XmlFactoryBuilder builder() {
         return new XmlFactoryBuilder();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The builder returned uses default settings more closely
+     * matching the default configs used in Jackson 2.x versions.
+     * <p>
+     *     This method is still a work in progress and may not yet fully replicate the
+     *     default settings of Jackson 2.x.
+     * </p>
+     */
+    public static XmlFactoryBuilder builderWithJackson2Defaults() {
+        return builder().configureForJackson2();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Note: compared to base implementation by {@link TokenStreamFactory},
      * here the copy will actually share underlying XML input and
diff --git a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapper.java b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapper.java
index 0b4a12d0..01d0c052 100644
--- a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapper.java
@@ -235,6 +235,24 @@ public Builder configure(XmlWriteFeature feature, boolean state)
             return this;
         }
 
+        /**
+         * The builder returned uses default settings more closely
+         * matching the default configs used in Jackson 2.x versions.
+         * <p>
+         *     This method is still a work in progress and may not yet fully replicate the
+         *     default settings of Jackson 2.x.
+         * </p>
+         */
+        @Override
+        public Builder configureForJackson2() {
+            return super.configureForJackson2()
+                    .disable(XmlWriteFeature.WRITE_NULLS_AS_XSI_NIL)
+                    .disable(XmlWriteFeature.UNWRAP_ROOT_OBJECT_NODE)
+                    .disable(XmlWriteFeature.AUTO_DETECT_XSI_TYPE)
+                    .disable(XmlWriteFeature.WRITE_XML_SCHEMA_CONFORMING_FLOATS)
+                    .disable(XmlReadFeature.AUTO_DETECT_XSI_TYPE);
+        }
+
         /*
         /******************************************************************
         /* XML specific additional config
@@ -340,6 +358,19 @@ public static XmlMapper.Builder builder(XmlFactory streamFactory) {
         return new XmlMapper.Builder(streamFactory);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The builder returned uses default settings more closely
+     * matching the default configs used in Jackson 2.x versions.
+     * <p>
+     *     This method is still a work in progress and may not yet fully replicate the
+     *     default settings of Jackson 2.x.
+     * </p>
+     */
+    public static XmlMapper.Builder builderWithJackson2Defaults() {
+        return builder(XmlFactory.builderWithJackson2Defaults().build())
+                .configureForJackson2();
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     @Override
     public XmlMapper.Builder rebuild() {
diff --git a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/deser/FromXmlParser.java b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/deser/FromXmlParser.java
index 44e7d490..73f6f0b5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/deser/FromXmlParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/deser/FromXmlParser.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import tools.jackson.core.io.NumberInput;
 import tools.jackson.core.util.ByteArrayBuilder;
 import tools.jackson.core.util.JacksonFeatureSet;
+import tools.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlWriteFeature;
 import tools.jackson.dataformat.xml.util.CaseInsensitiveNameSet;
 import tools.jackson.dataformat.xml.util.StaxUtil;
 
@@ -283,6 +284,10 @@ public void addVirtualWrapping(Set<String> namesToWrap0, boolean caseInsensitive
         _streamReadContext.setNamesToWrap(namesToWrap);
     }
 
+    public final boolean isEnabled(XmlReadFeature f) {
+        return (_formatFeatures & f.getMask()) != 0;
+    }
+
     /*
     /**********************************************************************
     /* JsonParser impl, closing etc
diff --git a/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapperTest.java b/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapperTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1160a192
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/xml/XmlMapperTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package tools.jackson.dataformat.xml;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import tools.jackson.core.StreamReadFeature;
+import tools.jackson.dataformat.xml.deser.FromXmlParser;
+import tools.jackson.dataformat.xml.ser.ToXmlGenerator;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+
+public class XmlMapperTest extends XmlTestUtil
+{
+
+    @Test
+    public void testBuilderWithJackson2Defaults() throws Exception
+    {
+        XmlMapper mapper = XmlMapper.builderWithJackson2Defaults().build();
+        assertFalse(mapper.isEnabled(StreamReadFeature.USE_FAST_DOUBLE_PARSER));
+        assertFalse(mapper.isEnabled(StreamReadFeature.USE_FAST_BIG_NUMBER_PARSER));
+
+        XMLOutputFactory outputFactory = mapper.tokenStreamFactory().getXMLOutputFactory();
+        try (
+                ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                ToXmlGenerator gen =
+                     mapper.createGenerator(
+                             outputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(bos))
+        ) {
+            assertFalse(gen.isEnabled(XmlWriteFeature.WRITE_NULLS_AS_XSI_NIL));
+            assertFalse(gen.isEnabled(XmlWriteFeature.UNWRAP_ROOT_OBJECT_NODE));
+            assertFalse(gen.isEnabled(XmlWriteFeature.AUTO_DETECT_XSI_TYPE));
+            assertFalse(gen.isEnabled(XmlWriteFeature.WRITE_XML_SCHEMA_CONFORMING_FLOATS));
+            // need to write something to the generator to avoid exception
+            final Point p = new Point(1, 2);
+            mapper.writeValue(gen, p);
+        }
+
+        final byte[] xml = "<root/>".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        XMLInputFactory inputFactory = mapper.tokenStreamFactory().getXMLInputFactory();
+        try (
+                ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml);
+                FromXmlParser parser =
+                        mapper.createParser(
+                                inputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(bis))
+        ) {
+            assertFalse(parser.isEnabled(XmlReadFeature.AUTO_DETECT_XSI_TYPE));
+        }
+    }
+}