I'm having trouble parsing xhtml pages as xml if that page contains special characters like ® or   The html im parsing is created by lift.

The problem is generated whenever referencing a variable.xml and the result is:
[Fatal Error] :54:46: The entity "reg" was referenced, but not declared.
And the printout of the xml.

Code example:
val result: String =
get("/some_page/here/" + variable) match {
case h: HttpResponse =>
val input = (h.xml \\ "input")
println("I got something" + input)
""
case other =>
println("Got something weird - got "+other)
""
}
result