diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e2eb39625..fc5c9316f 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
         "ext-curl": "*",
         "ext-zip": "*",
         "ext-dom": "*",
+        "ext-libxml": "*",
         "symfony/polyfill-iconv": "^1.15",
         "symfony/polyfill-php72": "^1.15",
         "symfony/polyfill-php73": "^1.15",
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
index d17dcca91..506ac724a 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
@@ -72,8 +72,11 @@ class Excerpts
      */
     public static function getExcerptFromHtml($html, $tag)
     {
-        $doc = new \DOMDocument();
+        $doc = new \DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
+        $internalErrors = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
         $doc->loadHTML($html);
+        libxml_use_internal_errors($internalErrors);
+
         $elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName($tag);
         $excerpt = null;