diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ff40e17..3775c73 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ One of `LATIN1`, `UTF_16_BE`, `UTF_16_LE`, `UTF_8`, `UTF_8_BOM`
 </td>
 <td>
 
-A [NumberFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/text/NumberFormat.html) that describes how `xsd:double` literals are formatted
+A [NumberFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/text/NumberFormat.html) that describes how `xsd:double` literals are formatted if `enableDoubleFormatting` is `true`.
 
 </td>
 <td>
@@ -314,12 +314,12 @@ A [NumberFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/ja
 <tr>
 <td>
 
-`skipDoubleFormatting`
+`enableDoubleFormatting`
 
 </td>
 <td>
 
-Allows for suppressing double formatting
+Enables formatting of `xsd:double` values (see `doubleFormat` option)
 
 </td>
 <td>
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/FormattingStyle.java b/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/FormattingStyle.java
index 3ed5e3d..195ef94 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/FormattingStyle.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/FormattingStyle.java
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public class FormattingStyle {
     public NumberFormat doubleFormat = new DecimalFormat("0.####E0" , DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(Locale.US));
 
     @Builder.Default
-    public boolean skipDoubleFormatting = true;
+    public boolean enableDoubleFormatting = false;
 
     @Builder.Default
     public EndOfLineStyle endOfLine = EndOfLineStyle.LF;
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatter.java b/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatter.java
index e9d2dd3..acdb54f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatter.java
@@ -626,8 +626,12 @@ private State writeUriResource( final Resource resource, final State state ) {
 
     private State writeLiteral( final Literal literal, final State state ) {
         String datatypeUri = literal.getDatatypeURI();
-        if (style.skipDoubleFormatting && datatypeUri.equals(XSD.xdouble.getURI())){
+        if (datatypeUri.equals(XSD.xdouble.getURI())) {
+            if (style.enableDoubleFormatting){
+                return state.write(style.doubleFormat.format(literal.getDouble()));
+            } else {
                 return state.write(literal.getLexicalForm());
+            }
         } else {
             if (datatypeUri.equals(XSD.xboolean.getURI())) {
                 return state.write(literal.getBoolean() ? "true" : "false");
@@ -641,9 +645,6 @@ private State writeLiteral( final Literal literal, final State state ) {
             if (datatypeUri.equals(XSD.integer.getURI())) {
                 return state.write(literal.getValue().toString());
             }
-            if (datatypeUri.equals(XSD.xdouble.getURI())) {
-                return state.write(style.doubleFormat.format(literal.getDouble()));
-            }
             if (datatypeUri.equals(RDF.langString.getURI())) {
                 return state.write(quoteAndEscape(literal) + "@" + literal.getLanguage());
             }
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatterTest.java b/src/test/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatterTest.java
index cb3d7f0..f3ce6f8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/atextor/turtle/formatter/TurtleFormatterTest.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Statement;
-import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.impl.PropertyImpl;
 import org.apache.jena.vocabulary.RDF;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
@@ -1020,7 +1019,7 @@ void testBlankNodeTriangleWithBlankNodeTriple(){
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testSkipFormattingValueOfPredicate() {
+    public void testEnableDoubleFormatting() {
         final String modelString = """
                        @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
                        @prefix ex: <http://example.com/ns#> .
@@ -1028,7 +1027,7 @@ public void testSkipFormattingValueOfPredicate() {
                        ex:something ex:decimalProp 0.0000000006241509074460762607776240980930446 ;
                          ex:doubleProp 6.241509074460762607776240980930446E-10 .""";
 
-        final FormattingStyle style = FormattingStyle.builder().skipDoubleFormatting(true).build();
+        final FormattingStyle style = FormattingStyle.builder().enableDoubleFormatting(false).build();
 
         final TurtleFormatter formatter = new TurtleFormatter( style );
         final String result = formatter.applyToContent( modelString );
@@ -1036,7 +1035,7 @@ public void testSkipFormattingValueOfPredicate() {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testDoubleFormatDefault() {
+    public void testDoubleFormattingDefault() {
         final String modelString = """
                        @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
                        @prefix ex: <http://example.com/ns#> .
@@ -1052,7 +1051,7 @@ public void testDoubleFormatDefault() {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void testDoubleFormat() {
+    public void testDisableDoubleFormatting() {
         final String modelString = """
                        @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
                        @prefix ex: <http://example.com/ns#> .
@@ -1060,7 +1059,7 @@ public void testDoubleFormat() {
                        ex:something ex:decimalProp 0.0000000006241509074460762607776240980930446 ;
                          ex:doubleProp 6.2415E-10 .""";
 
-        final FormattingStyle style = FormattingStyle.builder().skipDoubleFormatting(false).build();
+        final FormattingStyle style = FormattingStyle.builder().enableDoubleFormatting(true).build();
 
         final TurtleFormatter formatter = new TurtleFormatter( style );
         final String result = formatter.applyToContent( modelString );