Characters are not displaying and causing error when generating report in Jaspersoft studio

[vamsihari14]

please find below region code column  present in the sql server database. I  have fetched regioncode from database and written to xml file using .net .

when i try to generate the report  by mapping this xml file with jrxml report. i am getting following erro

<RegionCode> </RegionCode>

 

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Failed to parse the xml document.
    at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.view.control.ReportControler.fillReport(ReportControler.java:548)
    at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.view.control.ReportControler.access$20(ReportControler.java:523)
    at com.jaspersoft.studio.editor.preview.view.control.ReportControler$5.run(ReportControler.java:404)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
Caused by: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Failed to parse the xml document.
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRXmlUtils.parse(JRXmlUtils.java:77)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRXmlUtils.parse(JRXmlUtils.java:166)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.data.xml.XmlDataAdapterService.loadDataDocument(XmlDataAdapterService.java:156)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.data.xml.XmlDataAdapterService.contributeParameters(XmlDataAdapterService.java:82)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.contributeParameters(JRFillDataset.java:1150)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.setParameterValues(JRFillDataset.java:662)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseReportFiller.setParameters(BaseReportFiller.java:436)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.fill(JRBaseFiller.java:550)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.BaseFillHandle$ReportFill.run(BaseFillHandle.java:123)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 417; An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x10) was found in the element content of the document.
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRXmlUtils.parse(JRXmlUtils.java:73)
    ... 9 more