NullPointerException with getCpdReport method. This NPE occurs when a SAXParseException is thrown. This occurs when the source code has specific characters which are not recognized by UTF-8 encoding (encoding used by cpd xml file). [ERROR] DashBoardUtils getDocument() SAXException : org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An entity determined to be in a certain encoding must not contain sequences illegal in that encoding. at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.mojo.dashboard.report.plugin.DashBoardUtils.getDocument(DashBoardUtils.java:792) at org.codehaus.mojo.dashboard.report.plugin.DashBoardUtils.getCpdReport(DashBoardUtils.java:479) at org.codehaus.mojo.dashboard.report.plugin.DashBoardUtils.getDashBoardMavenProject(DashBoardUtils.java:276) at org.codehaus.mojo.dashboard.report.plugin.DashBoardReportMojo.executeReport(DashBoardReportMojo.java:263)