XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Kevin Herrboldt <kevin AT puppethead.com>]

Crimson seems to work fine with XOM when using validation, but if I try  
to use Crimson without validation I get the following error (Mac OS X,  
Java 1.4.1):

Exception in thread "main" nu.xom.XMLException:  
org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl does not support the entity  
resolution features XOM requires.
        at nu.xom.Builder.<init>(Builder.java:256)
        ...
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXNotSupportedException: Feature:  
http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities
        at  
org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.setFeature(XMLReaderImpl.java:21 
1)
        at nu.xom.Builder.setupParser(Builder.java:169)
        at nu.xom.Builder.<init>(Builder.java:248)


I've looked at the nu.xom.Builder code and see there's already some  
Crimson-specific code in there. Is this problem a Crimson deficiency or  
is there some work-around that could be implemented? It seems a shame  
if XOM can't work "out of the box" with the default XML parser  
(assuming it's not broken). Otherwise curse Sun for bundling Crimson  
with Java in such a way that it can't be upgraded.