Parsing FileInputStream for xml on Android

Hi,
I am running Android 4.0 API Level 14

This is my xml file

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<local_root />

This is my java

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
	
fileRead = new FileInputStream(localXMLfile);
Document doc = db.parse(fileRead);

doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("local_root");

It is throwing the following exception

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Unexpected token (position:TEXT ?xml version='1....@2:1 in java.io.InputStreamReader@413b7ab8)

on this line:

Document doc = db.parse(fileRead);

I thought it might be something to do with the UTF-8 encoding.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!