/**
     * UTF-7 Byte Order Mark definition.
     */
    protected static final ByteOrderMark BOM_UTF_7 = new ByteOrderMark("UTF-7", 0x2B, 0x2F, 0x76);

    /**
     * HTML4 unescape translator.
     */
    protected static final CharSequenceTranslator UNESCAPE_HTML4 = new AggregateTranslator(
            new LookupTranslator(EntityArrays.BASIC_UNESCAPE), new LookupTranslator(EntityArrays.ISO8859_1_UNESCAPE),

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

/**
 * Utility class for XML-related operations.
 *
 * This class provides methods to escape special characters in XML strings,
 * strip invalid XML characters, and parse XML content into a map of data.
 *
 * <p>
 * The class is final and cannot be instantiated.
 * </p>
 *
 * <h2>Methods:</h2>
 * <ul>

     * all occurrences of '?' with '\?' to ensure that these characters
     * are treated as literals rather than wildcard characters in queries.
     *
     * @param query the query string to escape
     * @return the escaped query string
     */
    public static String escapeWildcardQuery(final String query) {
        return query.replace("*", "\\*").replace("?", "\\?");
    }

                .register(CookieSpecs.STANDARD, laxStandardProvider)//
                .register(CookieSpecs.STANDARD_STRICT, strictStandardProvider)//
                .register(CookieSpecs.NETSCAPE, new NetscapeDraftSpecProvider())//
                .register(CookieSpecs.IGNORE_COOKIES, new IgnoreSpecProvider())//
                .build();
    }

    @Override
    public void close() {