Index: Lib/xml/sax/drivers2/drv_javasax.py
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--- Lib/xml/sax/drivers2/drv_javasax.py	(revision 7110)
+++ Lib/xml/sax/drivers2/drv_javasax.py	(working copy)
@@ -368,11 +368,37 @@
 def create_java_parser(jdriver = None):
     try:
         if jdriver:
-            return XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(jdriver)
+            xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(jdriver)
         elif jaxp:
-            return factory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader()
+            xmlReader = factory.newSAXParser().getXMLReader()
         else:
-            return XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader()
+            xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader()
+
+    # CPython does not check DTDs.
+    # To match the behavior of CPython, we  attempt to disable loading of 
+    # DTDs in a parser-agnostic fashion.
+    # Unfortunately, there is no truly parser-agnostic fashion for doing so;
+    # for Xerxes, the Apache load-external-dtd feature must be used.
+    # If that fails, an attempt is made to disable some standard features
+    # that may work to disable DTD loading.
+    try:
+        xmlReader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", False)
+    except javasax.SAXException, e:
+        # we must not be using Xerxes
+        try:
+            xmlReader.setFeature(feature_external_ges, False)
+        except javasax.SAXException, e:
+            pass
+        try:
+            xmlReader.setFeature(feature_external_pes, False)
+        except javasax.SAXException, e:
+            pass
+        try:
+            xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/resolve-dtd-uris", False)
+        except javasax.SAXException, e:
+            pass
+    return xmlReader
+
     except ParserConfigurationException, e:
         raise _exceptions.SAXReaderNotAvailable(e.getMessage())
     except javasax.SAXException, e: