[jdom-interest] Not legal JDOM characters?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:18 AM -0700 8/23/04, Dave Byrne wrote:

>The data "?" is not legal for a JDOM character content: 0xd835 is not a
>legal XML character.

Notice that this error message does not reference the character 
you're including. Furthermore, 0xd835 is a Unicode high surrogate. I 
therefore surmise that this is a bug in XOM, where XOM is not 
decoding surrogate pairs before passing them to the Verifier. Looking 
at the source, my surmise is correct:

         for (int i = 0, len = text.length(); i<len; i++) {
             if (!isXMLCharacter(text.charAt(i))) {
                 // Likely this character can't be easily displayed
                 // because it's a control so we use it'd hexadecimal
                 // representation in the reason.
                 return ("0x" + Integer.toHexString(text.charAt(i))
                  + " is not a legal XML character");
             }
         }

JDOM should be recognizing that this character is half of a surrogate 
pair, decoding the surrogate pair, and checking that. That's it's 
failing to do so is a bug.

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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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