<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am working on a jabber client in java.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a character sequence containing '0x6' is appended by yahoo client when sending a message.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the jabber server (version 1.4, on linux) quietly forwards this sequence to connected client along with the message.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but '0x6' is illegal character as per xml specification, and should not appear in any place (apart from cdata section). </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>both Xerces and Crimson SAX parsers throw exception on seeing this character.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>can anybody point me to a patch in jabber server for this / suggest any workaround for server?? - i am specifically filtering out all such characters with a filter reader now.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>anand</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>p.s. i did not find any ref to this on mailing list - maybe it affects only clients using 'official parsers' ??</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>