Receive "org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to create a new SAX parser" during deployment on JBoss

Issue

We see the following error during deployment:

ERROR [main] (MainDeployer.java:977) - Could
not create deployment:
file:/path/to/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/myapp.war/
org.jboss.wsf.spi.deployment.WSFDeploymentException:
org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to create a new
SAX parser
        at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.ArchiveDeployerHook.getWebservicesMetaData(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:138)
        at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.JAXRPCDeployerHookPreJSE.isWebServiceDeployment(JAXRPCDeployerHookPreJSE.java:140)
        at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.ArchiveDeployerHook.deploy(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:87)
        at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.DeployerInterceptor.create(DeployerInterceptor.java:79)
        at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptorSupport$XMBeanInterceptor.create(SubDeployerInterceptorSupport.java:180)
        at org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployerInterceptor.invoke(SubDeployerInterceptor.java:91)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
        at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659)
        at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210)
        at $Proxy54.create(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:969)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.create(MainDeployer.java:959)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:818)
        at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor30.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155)
Caused by: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to create a new SAX parser
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerFactory$UnmarshallerFactoryImpl.newUnmarshaller(UnmarshallerFactory.java:100)
        at org.jboss.wsf.container.jboss42.ArchiveDeployerHook.getWebservicesMetaData(ArchiveDeployerHook.java:130)
        ... 78 more
Caused by: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBException: Failed to create a new SAX parser
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.<init>(SaxJBossXBParser.java:96)
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerImpl.<init>(UnmarshallerImpl.java:55)
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerFactory$UnmarshallerFactoryImpl.newUnmarshaller(UnmarshallerFactory.java:96)
        ... 79 more
Caused by: javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException: Feature 'http://apache.org/xml/features/xinclude' is not recognized.
        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParser(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.<init>(SaxJBossXBParser.java:92)
        ... 81 more