ERROR while importing a wsdl: Illegal XML character: 0x15

Hello,

This is Neha. 

we are providing strategic solutions to a leading bank in Australia 

we are using SoapUI for many years. Recently we have moved our offshore servers to the cloud and facing issues in creating new Soap projects. Please find the details as below: 

while trying to create a new SOAP project using the wsdl: -- 

http://obpcbpd24doc01.wpdev.mintpress.io:18102/DWSAL1/PublishingService?wsdl

we are getting below error: 

Error loading [http://obpcbpd24doc01.wpdev.mintpress.io:18102/DWSAL1/PublishingService?wsdl]: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Illegal XML character: 0x15 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.io.IllegalCharException: Illegal XML character: 0x15 at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.UTF8XMLDecoder.decode(UTF8XMLDecoder.java:196) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.XMLStreamReader$FastStreamDecoder.read(XMLStreamReader.java:762) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.XMLStreamReader.read(XMLStreamReader.java:162) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yy_refill(PiccoloLexer.java:3474) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yylex(PiccoloLexer.java:3958) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yylex(Piccolo.java:1290) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yyparse(Piccolo.java:1400) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:714) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3454) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1276) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1263) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:345) at org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject$Factory.parse(XmlObject.java:663) at com.eviware.soapui.support.xml.XmlUtils.createXmlObject(XmlUtils.java:208) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.WsdlLoader.readCleanWsdlFrom(WsdlLoader.java:123) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.WsdlLoader.loadXmlObject(WsdlLoader.java:101) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.xsd.SchemaUtils.getDefinitionParts(SchemaUtils.java:486) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.xsd.SchemaUtils.getDefinitionParts(SchemaUtils.java:475) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.support.definition.support.AbstractDefinitionCache.update(AbstractDefinitionCache.java:92) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.support.definition.support.AbstractDefinitionContext$Loader.construct(AbstractDefinitionContext.java:208) at com.eviware.soapui.support.swing.SwingWorkerDelegator.construct(SwingWorkerDelegator.java:46) at com.eviware.soapui.support.swing.SwingWorker$2.run(SwingWorker.java:131) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)