2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/XML.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/XML.hs
index c46938d73..a96a63647 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/XML.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/XML.hs
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ escapeCharForXML x = case x of
 
 -- | Escape string as needed for XML.  Entity references are not preserved.
 escapeStringForXML :: String -> String
-escapeStringForXML = concatMap escapeCharForXML
+escapeStringForXML = concatMap escapeCharForXML . filter isLegalXMLChar
+  where isLegalXMLChar c = c == '\t' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' ||
+                           (c >= '\x20' && c <= '\xD7FF') ||
+                           (c >= '\xE000' && c <= '\xFFFD') ||
+                           (c >= '\x10000' && c <= '\x10FFFF')
+  -- see https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets
 
 -- | Escape newline characters as &#10;
 escapeNls :: String -> String
diff --git a/test/command/5119.md b/test/command/5119.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a816e0590
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/5119.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+```
+% pandoc -t docbook
+h&#x4;i
+^D
+<para>
+  hi
+</para>
+```
+