Currently I use jdom-b9 version to parase xml with the following xml
message

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
......

with the code like this
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
InputStream is = Thread.currentT hread().getCont extClassLoader( ).getResourceAs Stream("test.xm l");
Document doc = builder.build(i s);
XMLOutputter...