Building BI Publisher report with "BI Answers" data model

I've installed OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1 and try to create a BI Publisher report using BI Answers as data model. The catalog list of Answers comes up empty, and in the log files I find following error:
- Exception:
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The char '0x14' after '��u��3' is not a valid XML character.
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The char '0x14' after '��u��3' is not a valid XML character.
at org.apache.axis.components.encoding.UTF8Encoder.writeEncoded(UTF8Encoder.java:81)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext.writeSafeString(SerializationContext.java:1289)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.SimpleSerializer.serialize(SimpleSerializer.java:104)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext.serializeActual(SerializationContext.java:1504)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext.serialize(SerializationContext.java:980)
Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks,
Marc

option1:
The query should be same @ detail level, only the template has to be different for summary and details.
@runtime, user can choose to see the detail/summary
Disadvantage, if the data is huge,
advantage , only one report.
option2:
create two separate reports summary and details
and create diff data and diff layout and keep it as different report
Advantage, query will perform based on the user run report, summary/detail, so that you can write efficient query.
Dis advantage , two reports query/template to be maintained.

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