DomDriver() does not handle non-printable chars very well (eg. 0x0c)

When using the DomDriver(), strings with 0x0c (and probably other chars as well) do not unmarshal correctly, yielding an error:

[Fatal Error] :1:14: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xc) was found in the element content of the document.

Using the default (XPP) driver works correctly.

It might be worth noting this in the FAQ, because I suspect it is out of your hands (i.e. error exists in DomDriver).

Here is a test case demonstrating this behaviour:

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver;

public class DomTest extends TestCase
{

public void testDomDriver()

{ XStream xs = new XStream( new DomDriver() ); String input = "hello" + ( char ) 0x0c; assertEquals( input, xs.fromXML( xs.toXML( input ) ) ); }

public void testDefaultDriver()

{ XStream xs = new XStream(); String input = "hello" + ( char ) 0x0c; assertEquals( input, xs.fromXML( xs.toXML( input ) ) ); }

}