diff --git a/src/xml/ObjectXML.cc b/src/xml/ObjectXML.cc
index 446a0a2e7c..e57c999b74 100644
--- a/src/xml/ObjectXML.cc
+++ b/src/xml/ObjectXML.cc
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ int ObjectXML::validate_xml(const string &xml_doc)
 
 void ObjectXML::xml_parse(const string &xml_doc)
 {
-    xml = xmlParseMemory (xml_doc.c_str(),xml_doc.length());
+    xml = xmlReadMemory (xml_doc.c_str(),xml_doc.length(),0,0,XML_PARSE_HUGE);
 
     if (xml == 0)
     {