The character with hex value 13 (decimal 19, which I think is control-S) is not a legal XML character. No XML parser will accept it, so this is failing long before it gets to the Xalan code. If you try Xerces' sample programs you'll see the same complaint.
Find another way to express your data -- replace that character with XML markup, or invent an escape sequence which your application will understand and convert appropriately, or encode the whole block of information as base-64, or...
