I found an exception when parsing a simple xml as following:
------------begin of xml--------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
	<!-- Value of tag 'child1' is a character 0x96 -->
	<child1>–</child1>
</root>
------------end of xml--------------
Here is the exception using DomParser of Xalan 1.2.2 and Xercer 1.4.4:

------------begin of the exception--------------

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "child1" must be terminated by 
the matching end-tag "</child1>".
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError
(XMLParser.java:1016)
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.reportFatalXMLError
(XMLDocumentScanner.java:634)
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.abortMarkup
(XMLDocumentScanner.java:683)
	at 
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch
(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1187)
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome
(XMLDocumentScanner.java:380)
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:908)
	at TestParser.parseToNode(TestParser.java:57)
	at TestParser.run(TestParser.java:26)
	at TestParser.main(TestParser.java:18)
------------end of the exception--------------

Here is my java codes to parse the above simple xml-data:

  public static Node parseToNode(InputStream stream) throws Exception
  {
    DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
    parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);

    parser.parse(new InputSource(stream));
    Document dom = parser.getDocument();

    Node node = dom.getFirstChild();
    return node;
  }