How to parse an xml with extended characters?

[saritha2008]

Hi,

I am working on converting one form of xml to other form using XSLT.

When tried to convert the below xml file using XSLT, "parser error: PCDATA invalid Char value 2" is displayed. Can any one help how to resolve this issue?

[Code]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- RSS generated by JIRA 91 at Thu Oct 23 06:52:25 EDT 2008 -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
<title>Sentin el Issue Tracking System</title>
<link>http://bugs.esecurity. net:8090</link>
<description>Th is file is an XML representation of some issues</description>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<description> <![CDATA[
thiseventtgYe ar2005tgMonth 12tgDay23tg Hour06tgMinut e29tgSecond5 3RN30C2 CNSRAVANEC 529EI529 ET5LSecu ritySNSecur ityTaudit failureUNT AUTHORITY\SYSTE MCSLogon/Logoff MLogon FailureXMLo gon Failure: Reason: Unknown user name or bad password User Name: 0075 Domain: APPLABS Logon Type: 7 Logon Process: User32 Authentication Package: Negotiate Workstation Name: SRAVAN IS0075APPL ABS7User32 NegotiateSRAV AN]]></description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Encoding of the xml is UTF-8 and my xslt also outputs to an xml with an encoding of UTF-8.

Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Saritha

[Dormilich]

if your characters are outside the valid range you may consider using XML version 1.1, though even this does not allow all characters

Character Range (version 1.0)
[2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
/* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */

Character Range (version 1.1)
[2] Char ::= [#x1-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
/* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF. */

note: of course the surrounding programs have to support xml 1.1 too.

regards