What are invalid characters in XML

Question

I am working with some XML that holds strings like:

This is a string

Some of the strings that I am passing to the

Answer 1

In the Woodstox XML processor, invalid characters are classified by this code:

if (c == 0) {
    throw new IOException("Invalid null character in text to output");
}
if (c < ' ' || (c >= 0x7F && c <= 0x9F)) {
    String msg = "Invalid white space character (0x" + Integer.toHexString(c) + ") in text to output";
    if (mXml11) {
        msg += " (can only be output using character entity)";
    }
    throw new IOException(msg);
}
if (c > 0x10FFFF) {
    throw new IOException("Illegal unicode character point (0x" + Integer.toHexString(c) + ") to output; max is 0x10FFFF as per RFC");
}
/*
 * Surrogate pair in non-quotable (not text or attribute value) content, and non-unicode encoding (ISO-8859-x,
 * Ascii)?
 */
if (c >= SURR1_FIRST && c <= SURR2_LAST) {
    throw new IOException("Illegal surrogate pair -- can only be output via character entities, which are not allowed in this content");
}
throw new IOException("Invalid XML character (0x"+Integer.toHexString(c)+") in text to output");

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