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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8073385
+ * @summary test that invalid XML character exception string contains
+ *     information about character value, element and attribute names
+ * @run testng/othervm BadExceptionMessageTest
+ */
+
+import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+
+import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class BadExceptionMessageTest {
+
+    private Locale defLoc;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    private void setup() {
+        defLoc = Locale.getDefault();
+        Locale.setDefault(Locale.ENGLISH);
+    }
+
+    @AfterClass
+    private void cleanup() {
+        Locale.setDefault(defLoc);
+    }
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "illegalCharactersData")
+    public static Object[][] illegalCharactersData() {
+        return new Object[][]{
+            {0x00},
+            {0xFFFE},
+            {0xFFFF}
+        };
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "illegalCharactersData")
+    public void test(int character) throws Exception {
+        // Construct the XML document as a String
+        int[] cps = new int[]{character};
+        String txt = new String(cps, 0, cps.length);
+        String inxml = "<topElement attTest=\'" + txt + "\'/>";
+        String exceptionText = "NO EXCEPTION OBSERVED";
+        String hexString = "0x" + Integer.toHexString(character);
+
+        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
+        dbf.setValidating(false);
+        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
+        InputSource isrc = new InputSource(new StringReader(inxml));
+
+        try {
+            db.parse(isrc);
+        } catch (SAXException e) {
+            exceptionText = e.toString();
+        }
+        System.out.println("Got Exception:" + exceptionText);
+        assertTrue(exceptionText.contains("attribute \"attTest\""));
+        assertTrue(exceptionText.contains("element is \"topElement\""));
+        assertTrue(exceptionText.contains("Unicode: " + hexString));
+    }
+}