XML Pull Parser error when declaration present

Question

I'm trying to parse an xml document using the xml pull parser. Everything worked fine until i started dealing with an xml document containing an xxml declartation:

When the declaration is there i get the following error:

02-08 15:37:16.960: WARN/System.err(9721): org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: PI must not start with xml (position:unknown @1:5 in java.io.InputStreamReader@47ec2770)

If I take out the declaration from the document, everything works. It's too late for me to switch to another parser so i need to make it work!

Here's what my parser code looks like

XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
    // factory.setFeature(XmlPullParser.FEATURE_PROCESS_DOCDECL, true);
    XmlPullParser xpp = factory.newPullParser();

    // get a reference to the file.

    File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/"
            + Constants.SD_CARD_DIR + "/" + Constants.XMLPATH);
    // create an input stream to be read by the stream reader.
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
    // set the input for the parser using an InputStreamReader
    xpp.setInput(new InputStreamReader(fis));
    int eventType = xpp.getEventType();

    // /

    while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {...}