An interesting exception faced while parsing xml content. Also, on further analysis on this error caused below similar issues started to raise.
Another similar exception is:
java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence
Here, I am trying to parse an xml string using byte array from the xml string, and give that array as input to xml reader stream. I have used java.lang.String.getBytes() for this.
Unfortunately, I got a chinese (other UTF-8) characters as a value of one node in the xml. Hence, I got up with the above error. Later, I found that getBytes() method supports only the western encoding, not UTF-8. So by using java.lang.String.getBytes("UTF-8") method, we solved the issue.
Good to note this in XML Programming 
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1 wizardOfOzz // Jun 3, 2009 at 7:57 am
Nice post, I didn’t know getBytes behaves like that. This applies to any string, not only XMLs.
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