Disable DTD validation on XPATH

[Ayache Khettar]

Hi

We get XML from third party API which has Doctype declaration (<!DOCTYPE
x_request SYSTEM "https://hostname/dtd/xrequest.dtd";>). When XPATH is
invoked it tries to download schema which requires SSL connection and fails
with 403 error code (authentication error). How do we stop Xpath  or
SaxParser validating the XML.?

I am aware that programmatically we can set it this way: I am using
blueprint DSL, wondering how to set the below feature?

saxfac.setFeature("
http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-d‌​td";, false);


Regards,

akhettar