How can I ignore the DTD declaration when parsing file with XOM xml library. My file has the following line : 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE BlastOutput PUBLIC "-//NCBI//NCBI BlastOutput/EN" "NCBI_BlastOutput.dtd">
//rest of stuff here

And when I try to build() my document I get a filenotfound exception for the DTD file. I know I don't have this file and I don't care about it, so how can it be removed when using XOM?

Here is a code snippet: 

public BlastXMLParser(String filePath) {
    Builder b = new Builder(false);
     //not a good idea to have exception-throwing code in constructor
    try {

        _document = b.build(filePath);
    } catch (ParsingException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(BlastXMLParser.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE,"err", ex);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        //
    }

private Elements getBlastReads() {
    Element root = _document.getRootElement();
    Elements rootChildren = root.getChildElements();

    for (int i = 0; i < rootChildren.size(); i++) {
        Element child = rootChildren.get(i);
        if (child.getLocalName().equals("BlastOutput_iterations")) {

            return child.getChildElements();
        }
    }

    return null;
}
}

I get a NullPointerException at this line: 

Element root = _document.getRootElement();

With the DTD line removed from the source XML file I can successfully parse it, but this is not an option in the final production system.

java xml xom
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