--- old/src/com/sun/org/apache/xalan/internal/xsltc/trax/Util.java	Mon Jun 10 12:16:16 2013
+++ new/src/com/sun/org/apache/xalan/internal/xsltc/trax/Util.java	Mon Jun 10 12:16:16 2013
@@ -105,8 +105,6 @@
                     if (reader == null) {
                        try {
                            reader= XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
-                           reader.setProperty(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD,
-                                   xsltc.getProperty(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD));
                        } catch (Exception e ) {
                            try {
 
@@ -138,6 +136,14 @@
                     reader.setFeature
                         ("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",false);
 
+                    try {
+                        reader.setProperty(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD, 
+                                   xsltc.getProperty(XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD));
+                    } catch (SAXNotRecognizedException e) {
+                        System.err.println("Warning:  " + reader.getClass().getName() + ": " 
+                                + e.getMessage());
+                    }
+
                     xsltc.setXMLReader(reader);
                 }catch (SAXNotRecognizedException snre ) {
                   throw new TransformerConfigurationException