Error about invalid XML characters on Java

Question

Parsing an xml file on Java I get the error:

An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element content of the document.

The xml c

Answer 1

A bit of looking around reveals that 0x0 is a null character, someone else had the same problem with XML and null characters here http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=579849. Not sure how you are parsing the XML but if you get it as a string first there is some discusion on how to replace the null here http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=628189.