XmlWriter.isValidXMLChar(char) incorrectly determines ASCII space (0x20) character to be invalid XML

The ASCII space character (0x20) should be valid XML (as I understand it). The isValidXMLChar() method returns false and hence a space character gets encoded as a character entity ( ). This bug was checked in with version 1.14 of XmlWriter.java and exists in the current release version.

A possible patch would be as follows:

@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
return true;

default:

• return ( (0x20 < c && c <= 0xd7ff) ||
  + return ( (0x20 <= c && c <= 0xd7ff) ||
  (0xe000 < c && c <= 0xfffd) ||
  (0x10000 < c && c <= 0x10ffff) );
  }

thanks,

• Claude