XML : Unable to convert a SVG image to PNG using batik rasterizer

I am trying to convert images from SVG to PNG using the batik rasterizer (batik-transcoder 1.8) library, but even a simple conversion throws me an exception. This is a sample code which does not work:

  private static void convertSVGToImage() throws TranscoderException, IOException {      String svg_URI_input = Paths.get("caution.svg").toUri().toURL().toString();      TranscoderInput input_svg_image = new TranscoderInput(svg_URI_input);      OutputStream png_ostream = new FileOutputStream("caution.png");      TranscoderOutput output_png_image = new TranscoderOutput(png_ostream);      PNGTranscoder my_converter = new PNGTranscoder();      my_converter.transcode(input_svg_image, output_png_image);      png_ostream.flush();      png_ostream.close();  }    

Where caution.svg is this file: http://dev.w3.org/SVG/tools/svgweb/samples/svg-files/caution.svg

And the stacktrace is:

  org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: unrecognized feature http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities      at org.gjt.xpp.sax2.Driver.setFeature(Driver.java:178)      at org.gjt.xpp.jaxp11.SAXParserImpl.setFeatures(SAXParserImpl.java:149)      at org.gjt.xpp.jaxp11.SAXParserImpl.<init>(SAXParserImpl.java:132)      at org.gjt.xpp.jaxp11.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParserImpl(SAXParserFactoryImpl.java:114)      at org.gjt.xpp.jaxp11.SAXParserFactoryImpl.setFeature(SAXParserFactoryImpl.java:142)      at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.<clinit>(Unknown Source)      at org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.createDocumentFactory(Unknown Source)      at org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)      at org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)      at br.com.supera.Main.convertSVGToImage(Main.java:45)      at br.com.supera.Main.main(Main.java:35)      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)      at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)  Exception in thread "main" org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException: null  Enclosed Exception:  not supported setting property http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler      at org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)      at org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)      at br.com.supera.Main.convertSVGToImage(Main.java:45)      at br.com.supera.Main.main(Main.java:35)      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)      at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)    

Any help is appreciated.