diff --git a/src/discoursegraphs/readwrite/exportxml.py b/src/discoursegraphs/readwrite/exportxml.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/discoursegraphs/readwrite/exportxml.py
+++ b/src/discoursegraphs/readwrite/exportxml.py
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ class ExportXMLDocumentGraph(DiscourseDocumentGraph):
         self.tokens = []
         
         self.ignore_relations = ignore_relations
+        self.ignore_splitrelations = ignore_splitrelations
         self.ignore_secedges = ignore_secedges
exportxml: added missing attribute ignore_splitrelations