Invalid character 0 ... error in xmlparsing??? strange behaviour

Hello Everyone,
I am experience a strange behaviour with XML processing in oracle. I have a xml that contains HTML as CDATA
as the content of a node.
When the HTML size is greater than 51 KB (or 51. something KB i was not able to find the exact boundary)
it's giving an error.
XML Parsing Failer
LPX-00216: invalid character 0 (0x0)
I tried to search for null character (chr(0)) but couldn't find one.
The strangest part is when i am trying with HTML size as 48 KB/24 KB (anyting less than 51 KB) it's getting passed and
the large HTML ( > 52KB ) is being build manually by copy pasting the small xml again and again. So if the small HTML
is getting parsed what's wrong with the large html which consist of nothing but the small html again and again?
When the HTML size is greater than 64KB oracle is throwing error saying node size cannot exceed 64KB which is fine.
First i thought that it was a character set encoding problem. The HTML is encoded in UTF-8 and the database is in
WE8MSWIN1252, but it seems that it is not the problem as i have explained above?
Can anyone help me what am i missing in here?
Thanks,
Ru

What database version are you on?
Can you provide us an example of XML you are using?
Can you show us the code you are using to parse it?
Can you tell us what you are expecting as output?
Based on your current description all we know is you have some XML and you're getting an error when you parse it. By itself that's pretty meaningless.

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