// Test ASCII control characters.
    for (char ch = 0; ch < 0x20; ch++) {
      if (ch == '\t' || ch == '\n' || ch == '\r') {
        // Only these whitespace chars are permitted in XML,
        if (shouldEscapeWhitespaceChars) {
          assertEscaping(xmlEscaper, "&#x" + Integer.toHexString(ch).toUpperCase() + ";", ch);
        } else {
          assertUnescaped(xmlEscaper, ch);
        }
      } else {

            }

            char ch = s.charAt(pos);
            pos++;
            if (ch == '\\') {
                sb.append(ch);
                if (pos >= end) {
                    break; // ERROR, or let it go?
                }
                ch = s.charAt(pos);
                pos++;
            }

            sb.append(ch);
        }

        if (sb.length() > 0) {

     * @param str
     *            the string to check
     * @param ch
     *            the character to find
     * @return true if the character is contained in the string, false otherwise
     */
    public static boolean contains(final String str, final char ch) {
        if (isEmpty(str)) {
            return false;
        }
        return str.indexOf(ch) >= 0;
    }

    /**

    /**
     * Counts occurrences of a character in a string, excluding quoted sections.
     *
     * @param line the line to analyze
     * @param ch the character to count
     * @return the number of occurrences
     */
    protected int countOccurrences(final String line, final char ch) {
        int count = 0;
        boolean inQuotes = false;

        for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {

            for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                final char ch = s.charAt(i);
                if (ch == '\\' && i < s.length() - 1) {
                    i++;
                    sb.append(s.charAt(i));
                } else {
                    sb.append(ch);
                }
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
        return s;
    }

            for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
                final char ch = s.charAt(i);
                if (ch == '\\' && i < s.length() - 1) {
                    i++;
                    sb.append(s.charAt(i));
                } else {
                    sb.append(ch);
                }
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
        return s;
    }

            } else if ("item".equals(qName)) {
                buffer.setLength(0);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void characters(final char[] ch, final int offset, final int length) {
            buffer.append(new String(ch, offset, length));
        }

        @Override
        public void endElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName) {

            return StringUtil.isNotBlank(qName) ? qName : localName;
        }

        @Override
        public void characters(final char[] ch, final int offset, final int length) {
            if (buf != null) {
                buf.append(new String(ch, offset, length));
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void endElement(final String uri, final String localName, final String qName) {

    /**
     * The language/region code for this alternate link.
     * Should be in ISO 639-1 format (language) optionally followed by ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 format (region).
     * For example: "en", "en-US", "de-CH", "x-default"
     */
    private String hreflang;

    /**
     * The URL of the alternate version of the page.
     */
    private String href;

    /**
     * Creates a new SitemapAlternateLink instance.

     *
     * @param ch the characters from the XML document
     * @param start the start position in the character array
     * @param length the number of characters to use from the character array
     * @throws SAXException if a SAX error occurs during character processing
     */
    @Override
    public void characters(final char[] ch, final int start, final int length) throws SAXException {