Index: src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturalipc.jelly
===================================================================
--- src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturalipc.jelly	(revision 349918)
+++ src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturalipc.jelly	(working copy)
@@ -27,9 +27,14 @@
 
   <u:file var="artifactAsFile" 
       name="${maven.dashboard.aggregator.coberturalipc.artifact}"/>
+
   <j:choose>
     <j:when test="${artifactAsFile.exists()}">
-      <x:parse var="doc" xml="${artifactAsFile}"/>
+	  <u:loadText encoding="UTF-8" file="${maven.dashboard.aggregator.coberturalipc.artifact}" var="artifactAsText" />
+  	  <u:replace new="" old="&lt;!DOCTYPE coverage SYSTEM &#0034;http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/xml/coverage-02.dtd&#0034;>" 
+  		var="fileWithoutDTD" value="${artifactAsText}"/>
+
+      <x:parse var="doc" text="${fileWithoutDTD}"/>
 	  <x:expr select="floor(100*count($doc/coverage/packages/package/classes/class/lines/line[@hits>0]) div count($doc/coverage/packages/package/classes/class/lines/line[@number>0])+0.5)"/>
       %
     </j:when>
Index: src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturaloc.jelly
===================================================================
--- src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturaloc.jelly	(revision 349918)
+++ src/plugin-resources/aggregators/coberturaloc.jelly	(working copy)
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@
    ========================================================================
 -->
 <j:jelly xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:x="jelly:xml" xmlns:u="jelly:util">
-
+	
   <u:file var="artifactAsFile" 
       name="${maven.dashboard.aggregator.coberturaloc.artifact}"/>
+  
   <j:choose>
     <j:when test="${artifactAsFile.exists()}">
-      <x:parse var="doc" xml="${artifactAsFile}"/>
+	  <u:loadText encoding="UTF-8" file="${maven.dashboard.aggregator.coberturaloc.artifact}" var="artifactAsText" />
+  	  <u:replace new="" old="&lt;!DOCTYPE coverage SYSTEM &#0034;http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/xml/coverage-02.dtd&#0034;>" 
+  	    var="fileWithoutDTD" value="${artifactAsText}"/>
+      <x:parse var="doc" text="${fileWithoutDTD}"/>
 	  <x:expr select="count($doc/coverage/packages/package/classes/class/lines/line[@number>0])"/>
     </j:when>
     <j:otherwise>