How to deal with invalid characters in a WS output when using CXF?

Question

I\'m using Spring, CXF and Hibernate to build a WebService that perform search queries on a foreign database that I have read-only access.

The problem is that some entri

Answer 1

The top-rated answer didn't work for me, as the given Unicode encoding was rejected. With a slight alteration however, it displayed the desired behaviour:

public static String CleanInvalidXmlChars(String text, String replacement) {
    String re = "[^\\u0009\\u000A\\u000D\\u0020-\\uD7FF\\uE000-\\uFFFD\\u0001\\u0000-\\u0010\\uFFFF]";
    return text.replaceAll(re, replacement);
}