Force XML version 1.1 override for parser

Hello,
I have a XML file that has a prolog tagging the document to be in `version=1.0`, even though it contains some entities (namely ``), which do not conform to 1.0, so I get an exception when parsing the file as expected.

Once I manually change the version in the prolog to `1.1`, the file is parsed without errors.

My question is whether there's a way to force the parser to discard the prolog information to somehow always use XML 1.1 semantics, without the need to alter the original file. I'm using the SAX API.

Thanks.