diff --git a/openerp/tools/misc.py b/openerp/tools/misc.py
index 4d6d204957a..4dc52424adf 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/misc.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/misc.py
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ _logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # List of etree._Element subclasses that we choose to ignore when parsing XML.
 # We include the *Base ones just in case, currently they seem to be subclasses of the _* ones.
-SKIPPED_ELEMENT_TYPES = (etree._Comment, etree._ProcessingInstruction, etree.CommentBase, etree.PIBase)
+SKIPPED_ELEMENT_TYPES = (etree._Comment, etree._ProcessingInstruction, etree.CommentBase, etree.PIBase, etree._Entity)
+
+# Configure default global parser
+etree.set_default_parser(etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False))
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------
 # Subprocesses