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