An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x2) was found in the element content of the document

When parsing XML an error is generated

final XMLEventReader eventReader = createXmlReader(params);

 while (eventReader.hasNext()) {

   final XMLEvent event = eventReader.nextEvent(); // Throws Exception here

            if (event.isStartElement()) {
                final String elementName =  
                event.asStartElement().getName().getLocalPart();
                depth++;

While reading

final XMLEvent event = eventReader.nextEvent(); the exception is created

Is it possible to create any validation for XMLEvent ?