diff --git a/src/html/htmlparser.cpp b/src/html/htmlparser.cpp
index c5e37cf..f4b158e 100644
--- a/src/html/htmlparser.cpp
+++ b/src/html/htmlparser.cpp
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ void HTMLParser::clear_input_flags()
 	char_was_escaped = false;
 	escaped_chars_buffer.clear();
 	escaped_char_index = 0;
+	filter_mode      = false;
 }
 
 
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ void HTMLParser::filter(const wchar_t * in, std::wstring & out, bool clear_out_s
 
 	pchar_unicode = in;
 	out_string    = &out;
+	filter_mode   = true;
 
 	if( clear_out_string )
 		out_string->clear();
@@ -209,8 +211,8 @@ void HTMLParser::filter(const WTextStream & in, Stream & out, bool clear_out_str
 
 	wtext_stream_iterator = &begin;
 	wtext_stream_iterator_end = &end;
-
 	out_stream = &out;
+	filter_mode = true;
 
 	if( clear_out_stream )
 		out_stream->clear();
@@ -232,6 +234,7 @@ HTMLParser::Status HTMLParser::filter_file(const char * file_name, std::wstring
 	file.open(file_name, std::ios_base::binary | std::ios_base::in);
 
 	out_string = &out;
+	filter_mode = true;
 
 	if( clear_out_stream )
 		out_string->clear();
@@ -2383,7 +2386,7 @@ int HTMLParser::read_char()
 	{
 		read_char_no_escape();
 
-		if( lastc == '&' )
+		if( !filter_mode && lastc == '&' )
 		{
 			read_xml_entity();
 
diff --git a/src/html/htmlparser.h b/src/html/htmlparser.h
index fb63809..15dd8db 100644
--- a/src/html/htmlparser.h
+++ b/src/html/htmlparser.h
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ protected:
 	std::wstring escaped_chars_buffer;
 	size_t escaped_char_index;
 
+	/*
+	 * filter mode, a method filter(...) was called
+	 * in filter mode we do not unescape xml sequences such as < > ...
+	 */
+	bool filter_mode;
+
 
 	void clear_input_flags();