Index: trunk/src/com/kitfox/svg/SVGUniverse.java
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--- trunk/src/com/kitfox/svg/SVGUniverse.java	(revision 8149)
+++ trunk/src/com/kitfox/svg/SVGUniverse.java	(revision 10741)
@@ -63,4 +63,6 @@
 import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
 import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
 import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
@@ -68,5 +70,4 @@
 import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
 import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
-import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
 
 /**
@@ -574,9 +575,11 @@
     }
 
-    private XMLReader getXMLReaderCached() throws SAXException
+    private XMLReader getXMLReaderCached() throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException
     {
         if (cachedReader == null)
         {
-            cachedReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
+            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+            factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+            cachedReader = factory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();
         }
         return cachedReader;