Split CDATA Sections and the division Symbol (x00f7)

I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug or not. I created a DOM with an element with a CDATA section and I set the value to a String of characters which include a division symbol (xF7). (I actually do this by reading the characters in from a file and converting them from bytes to a String specifying a Windows-1252 encoding.) When I serialize this DOM out to a String, byte array or anything else, the CData section is split around the division symbol and the division symbol is emitted as an entity (÷). I do try to serialize this as UTF-8. 

 

I see in the documentation that this is the correct behavior when the serializer encounters a Unicode character that isn't recognized; not sure if this means not recognized in the Unicode (internal) form or there is no UTF-8 equivalent. But x00F7 seems to be the correct Unicode value for a division symbol and there is a UTF-8 encoding for it.  Other "special" characters seem to serialize to UTF-8 without this split.

 

I can send code. I've tried this on the latest Xerces-J. Anyone have any thoughts about it?

 

Thanks,

 

Steve Carton