XPathQueryService working?

Has anyone successfully used the XPathQueryService with the XMLDB api?

I have some code which does:

ResourceSet resourceSet = service.query(query);
ResourceIterator resourceIterator = resourceSet.getIterator();
while (resourceIterator.hasMoreResources()) {
        xmlResource = (XMLResource) resourceIterator.nextResource();

        //get result as string
        String str = (String) xmlResource.getContent();

        //get result as DOM
        Document doc = (Document) xmlResource.getContentAsDOM();
}

When I print out the string I get garbage mixed with xml:

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    <Elements>
        <Element
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 allowAlphabetic="ON" allowNumeric="ON" 
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 useDefaultLanguage="true" 
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..etc..

It seems to be incomplete xml with all kinds of weird unicode
characters.

When I get the content as DOM I get a SAXParseException:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character
(Unicode: 0x8) was found in the value of attribute "historyLength" and
element is "Class".
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
        at
org.exist.xmldb.RemoteXMLResource.getContentAsDOM(RemoteXMLResource.java:168)


All of this used to work find with Xindice's XPathQueryService, but I'm
trying to move to eXist. Does the eXist's XPathQueryService actually
work, and if so, how do I do want I want to do with eXist?

I'm using the eXist snapshot dated 20040816 running on Jetty, running on
Debian GNU Linux. The java webapp which I'm connecting to xindice from
via xmlrpc is running inside tomcat 4.

Cheers,
Dominic

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