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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
+
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
+import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
+
+/**
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8072081
+ * @summary verifies that supplementary characters are supported as character
+ * data in xml 1.0, and also names in xml 1.1.
+ * @run testng/othervm SupplementaryChars
+ */
+/*
+ * Joe Wang (huizhe.wang@oracle.com)
+ */
+
+public class SupplementaryChars {
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "supported")
+    public void test(String xml) throws Exception {
+        ByteArrayInputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8"));
+        getParser().parse(stream, new DefaultHandler());
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test(dataProvider = "unsupported", expectedExceptions = SAXParseException.class)
+    public void testInvalid(String xml) throws Exception {
+        ByteArrayInputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8"));
+        getParser().parse(stream, new DefaultHandler());
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "supported")
+    private Object[][] supported() {
+
+        return new Object[][] {
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><tag>\uD840\uDC0B</tag>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><!-- \uD840\uDC0B --><tag/>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.1\"?><tag\uD840\uDC0B>in tag name</tag\uD840\uDC0B>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.1\"?><tag attr\uD840\uDC0B=\"in attribute\">in attribute name</tag>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.1\"?><tag>\uD840\uDC0B</tag>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.1\"?><!-- \uD840\uDC0B --><dontCare/>"}
+        };
+    }
+
+    @DataProvider(name = "unsupported")
+    private Object[][] unsupported() {
+        return new Object[][] {
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><tag\uD840\uDC0B>in tag name</tag\uD840\uDC0B>"},
+            {"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><tag attr\uD840\uDC0B=\"in attribute\">in attribute name</tag>"}
+        };
+    }
+
+    private SAXParser getParser() {
+        SAXParser parser = null;
+        try {
+            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+            parser = factory.newSAXParser();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
+        }
+        return parser;
+    }
+}