You are not using a DOM parser if you are getting the org.xml.sax.SAXParseException. You are using a SAX parser.
There is a malformed character under title in your vendor record. You probably do not have the correct charset.
I tried to load this pipeline file into my editor and it appears to be corrupted and will not load. I examined the record in explorer, firefox and my xml editor.
On line 128, one of the value tags is not properly formed. Specifically it is the ZZCORRESP tag. The closing you need to add in a ‘<’ on the closing value.