Preventing Expansion of Entity References While Parsing an XML File
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception{ DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(true); // Prevent expansion of entity references factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false); // Create the builder and parse the file Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename")); } }