public function serializerSimplexmlLoadString($xmlString){
    $numericTable = array();
    //commonly present restricted characters that can safely be replaced
    $numericTable['&'] = '&#38;';
    $entBitmask = defined('ENT_HTML5') ? ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 : ENT_QUOTES;
    $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, $entBitmask);
    foreach ($trans as $k=>$v){
      $numericTable[$v]= "&#".ord($k).";";
    }
    $xmlString = strtr($xmlString, $numericTable);
    return simplexml_load_string($xmlString);
  }