Jelly parser dies parsing wellformed UTF-8 XML files

It appears that our XML parser (electricXML) is not fully conformant and does not correctly parse the utf-8 chars in some XML. Exception is:

Could not read script string.
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Exception: java.io.IOException: expected '=', got 'v'
java.io.PrintWriter@11bee48

2004-06-26 01:29:13,230 ERROR [web.action.util.JellyRunner] Could not read scrip
t string.
java.io.IOException: expected '=', got 'v'
at electric.util.lex.Lex.readChar(Lex.java:371)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parseAttributes(SAXParser.java:685)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parseElement(SAXParser.java:597)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:330)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:270)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:241)
at electric.xml.sax.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:207)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.parser.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:283)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.parser.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:265)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.JellyRunner.getJellyScript(JellyRu
nner.java:135)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.JellyRunner.doExecute(JellyRunner.
java:84)
at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:151)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport
.java:49)
at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.
java:131)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher.service(JiraS
ervletDispatcher.java:186)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilt
er.java:129)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilte
r.java:61)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.SitemeshExcludePathFilter.doFilter(Sit
emeshExcludePathFilter.java:36)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.ja
va:164)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:181
)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(Profili
ngFilter.java:132)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ActionCleanupDelayFilter.doFilter(Acti
onCleanupDelayFilter.java:37)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter.doFilter(JohnsonFilter.ja
va:96)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.ja
va:60)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEn
codingFilter.java:38)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV
alve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV
alve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:
2417)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatche
rValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:172)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContex
t.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:19
3)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java
:781)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.proce
ssConnection(Http11Protocol.java:549)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java
:589)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
ool.java:666)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)