diff --git a/tools/xml_helper.py b/tools/xml_helper.py
index 87c24ab02a..e26ca92d94 100755
--- a/tools/xml_helper.py
+++ b/tools/xml_helper.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class CustomResolver(tree.Resolver):
         return None
 
 
-_parser = tree.XMLParser()
+_parser = tree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=True)
 # pylint: disable=no-member
 _parser.resolvers.add(CustomResolver())