[rules-users] Processing xml with control characters in droolserver

Hi, I am sending xml to initiate rule execution in drools server 5.4. When there is control character in the xml, it is failing with following error, is there any way to overcome this? 16 Jul 2014 00:03:28,852 ERROR [org.apache.camel.processor.DefaultErrorHandler] (http--0.0.0.0-8080-239) Failed delivery for exchangeId: ID-svl-prod-prwf04-juniper-net-51091-1404737660521-0-3260214. Exhausted after delivery attempt: 1 caught: com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: : Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 8)) [note: in XML 1.1, it could be included via entity expansion] at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [30,126] : : Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 8)) [note: in XML 1.1, it could be included via entity expansion] at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [30,126] ---- Debugging information ---- message : : Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 8)) [note: in XML 1.1, it could be included via entity expansion] at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [30,126] cause-exception : com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException cause-message : : Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 8)) [note: in XML 1.1, it could be included via entity expansion] at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [30,126] class : java.lang.String required-type : java.lang.String converter-type : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverterWrapper wrapped-converter : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.basic.StringConverter path : /batch-execution/set-global[7]/map/entry[50]/string[2] line number : 2 class[1] : java.util.HashMap converter-type[1] : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.MapConverter class[2] : org.drools.command.runtime.SetGlobalCommand converter-type[2] : org.drools.runtime.help.impl.XStreamXML$SetGlobalConverter class[3] : org.drools.command.runtime.BatchExecutionCommandImpl converter-type[3] : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ReflectionConverter version : null Thanks & Regards, Shameer