Per my message to maven-users: ----------- Some of our developers periodically check in code and write CVS commit messages containing invalid characters. For example, people will put in Ctrl-V+C accidentally, which causes our continuous build to fail with: BUILD FAILED File...... /home/jdunn/.maven/cache/maven-xdoc-plugin-1.8/plugin.jelly Element... x:parse Line...... 120 Column.... 48 Error on line 12 of document file:/home/jdunn/devel/util/target/changelog.xml :An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x16) was found in the CDATA section. Nestedexception: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x16) was found in the CDATA section. Total time: 19 seconds Finished at: Fri Jan 28 16:55:21 EST 2005 -----------