lookit constructing a Document using:
<p><pre>
org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder builder = new org.jdom.SAXBuilder(true);
try {
        Document foo = builder.build(someXmlRef);
} catch (org.jdom.JDOMException e) {
        // The DTD parsing failed
}
</p></pre>
/me prays that looks ok
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