diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index ff479e72bef..c6b16cac638 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 jetty-7.5.0-SNAPSHOT
  + 351516 Refactored sessions to better support nosql session managers
  + 351576 Do not use deprecated method File.toURL()
+ + 352046 Need try/catch around features set in XmlParser
 
 jetty-7.4.4.v20110707 July 7th 2011
  + 308851 Converted all jetty-client module tests to JUnit 4
diff --git a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlParser.java b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlParser.java
index 899452f69ac..6dc6cbbe788 100644
--- a/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlParser.java
+++ b/jetty-xml/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/xml/XmlParser.java
@@ -108,7 +108,14 @@ public class XmlParser
             _parser.getXMLReader().setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", validating);
             _parser.getXMLReader().setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
             _parser.getXMLReader().setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", false);  
-            _parser.getXMLReader().setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", validating);
+            try
+            {
+                _parser.getXMLReader().setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", validating);
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                Log.warn(Log.EXCEPTION, e);
+            }
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {