diff --git a/doc/release-notes/10837-exclude-others-ns-harvesting-oai-dc.md b/doc/release-notes/10837-exclude-others-ns-harvesting-oai-dc.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c1826bfaed5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/10837-exclude-others-ns-harvesting-oai-dc.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Some repository extend the "oai_dc" metadata prefix with specific namespaces. In this case, harvesting of these datasets is not possible, as an XML parsing error is raised.
+
+The PR [#10837](https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/10837) allows the harvesting of these datasets by excluding tags with namespaces that are not "dc:", and harvest only metadata with the "dc" namespace.
diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/imports/ImportGenericServiceBean.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/imports/ImportGenericServiceBean.java
index d32a548c8bf..41a57665010 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/imports/ImportGenericServiceBean.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/imports/ImportGenericServiceBean.java
@@ -205,8 +205,17 @@ public DatasetDTO processOAIDCxml(String DcXmlToParse) throws XMLStreamException
     
     private void processXMLElement(XMLStreamReader xmlr, String currentPath, String openingTag, ForeignMetadataFormatMapping foreignFormatMapping, DatasetDTO datasetDTO) throws XMLStreamException {
         logger.fine("entering processXMLElement; ("+currentPath+")");
-        
-        for (int event = xmlr.next(); event != XMLStreamConstants.END_DOCUMENT; event = xmlr.next()) {
+
+        while (xmlr.hasNext()) {
+
+            int event;
+            try {
+                event = xmlr.next();
+            } catch (XMLStreamException ex) {
+                logger.warning("Error occurred in the XML parsing : " + ex.getMessage());
+                continue; // Skip Undeclared namespace prefix and Unexpected close tag related to com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException
+            }
+
             if (event == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
                 String currentElement = xmlr.getLocalName();