[JDEV] illgal character in yahoo message

[anand joglekar]

hi,   i am working on a jabber client in java.   a character sequence containing '0x6' is appended by yahoo client when sending a message.   the jabber server (version 1.4, on linux) quietly forwards this sequence to connected client along with the message.   but '0x6' is illegal character as per xml specification, and should not appear in any place (apart from cdata section).   both Xerces and Crimson SAX parsers throw exception on seeing this character.   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.   regards,   anand p.s. i did not find any ref to this on mailing list - maybe it affects only clients using 'official parsers' ??