title: Way it ignore entity reference resolving?
body: <p>I'm using Java 6 and the latest version of Xerces.  I'm trying to parse an HTML document that begins like this ... </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and later references the entity "&amp;raquo".  Parsing dies with the exception ... </p>
  
  <pre><code>org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity "raquo" was referenced, but not declared. 
      at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:249) 
      at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284) 
      at com.myco.myproject.util.XmlUtilities.getStringAsDocument(XmlUtilities.java:147) 
      at com.myco.myproject.util.NetUtilities.getUrlAsDocument(NetUtilities.java:65) 
      at com.myco.myproject.parsers.impl.AbstractMetromixParser.parsePage(AbstractMetromixParser.java:107) 
      at com.myco.myproject.parsers.impl.AbstractMetromixParser.getEvents(AbstractMetromixParser.java:76) 
      at com.myco.myproject.domain.EventFeed.refresh(EventFeed.java:81) 
      at com.myco.myproject.domain.EventFeed.getEvents(EventFeed.java:72) 
      at com.myco.myproject.parsers.impl.MetromixParserTest.testParser(MetromixParserTest.java:21) 
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) 
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) 
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 
      at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44) 
      at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15) 
      at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41) 
      at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20) 
      at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:28) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.java:74) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.java:83) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.SpringRepeat.evaluate(SpringRepeat.java:72) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231) 
      at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71) 
      at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236) 
      at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390) 
      at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way to tell the parser to ignore these types of entities it cannot resolve?  If not, what resolver do I have to plugin? </p>
  
  <p><b>Edit</b>: Here is how I am parsing the HTML, which is actually XHTML.  I pass the String through JSoup to clean it up before I attempt the below ...</p>
  
  <pre><code>    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
      factory.setValidating(false);
      factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
      final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
      final InputSource s = new InputSource(new StringReader(str));
      org.w3c.dom.Document result = builder.parse(s);
  </code></pre>