Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I am using XMLReader as
XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");

to parse an xml document. The XML has a <!DOCTYPE ....> in it which specifies a dtd file. If I do not have the dtd file on my local machine, the parser will fail. How can I tell the parser to ignore the <!DOCTYPE..> line, since I do not want it to validate against the dtd anyway?

Thanks.