FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.5.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode, sharing)


ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
True for Windows and Linux (all versions)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
XMLEncoder will produce invalid XML under a range of circumstances. Valid characters in XML (from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/) are:

"Character Range
[2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */
"

No character that is outside this range may be put in an XML file.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Any function that returns a string where ANY of the characters are not permitted by the XML specification, or any method that returns a char where the char is not in the permitted range.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Strings should be encoded (Base64) before saving them to the file. Characters could be saved as ints or encoded strings.
ACTUAL -
Invalid characters are encoded directly into the file.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.
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