Android : Reading XML from local resource (for testing)

I'm writing an app which will read XML from a webservice (probably via kSOAP2). I'm fairly happy with SAX parsing, as I've done XML parsing iPhone apps.

Unfortunately the webservice isn't public yet so for initial testing I have some files containing the XML I need to parse. In this early dev phase I just need to read the XML from the files and pass it into the XML parser

Xml.parse(this.testXML, root.getContentHandler());

How do I read the XML from a file/resource into a string to pass into this method. I want to crack on and test the parser, but this simple step is holding me up.

Thanks