Disable XML Entity resolving in JDOM / DOM?

I believe that if validation (feature http://xml.org/sax/features/validation ) is true it overrides setExpandEntities(false) . Try also disabling validation by setting that feature to false .

I've found various hints like this one that say that you can't turn off entity expansion in attributes. I'm not sure what to suggest that's not ugly. For example, you could use an EntityResolver that would bring in a "null" DTD - that defined the expansion of "wiki" as "&wiki;".

Seems like there's gotta be a better way!

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