diff -Naur glabels-2.2.5.orig/src/xml-label.c glabels-2.2.5/src/xml-label.c
--- glabels-2.2.5.orig/src/xml-label.c	2008-03-25 02:33:04.000000000 +0100
+++ glabels-2.2.5/src/xml-label.c	2009-10-12 08:09:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	filename = g_filename_from_utf8 (utf8_filename, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 	g_return_val_if_fail (filename, NULL);
 
-	doc = xmlParseFile (filename);
+        doc = xmlReadFile (filename, NULL, XML_PARSE_HUGE);
 	if (!doc) {
 		g_message (_("xmlParseFile error"));
 		*status = XML_LABEL_ERROR_OPEN_PARSE;
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
 
 	gl_debug (DEBUG_XML, "START");
 
-	doc = xmlParseDoc ((xmlChar *) buffer);
+        doc = xmlReadDoc ((xmlChar *) buffer, NULL, NULL, XML_PARSE_HUGE);
 	if (!doc) {
 		g_message (_("xmlParseFile error"));
 		*status = XML_LABEL_ERROR_OPEN_PARSE;