Reference to undeclared entity 'nbsp' while reading xml from URL in c#?

Question

    XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
    xmldoc.XmlResolver = null;

    xmldoc.Load(\"URL\");
    XmlWriter xmlWrite = XmlWriter.Create(@Server.MapPath(\"Tes         


        

Answer 1

I had this same problem today, and I was able to solve it by changing the HTML entity name to an HTML entity number.

Per this helpful forum post, I was able to fix this error.

HTML entity names are not well supported in XML. This is why the "nonbreaking space"--"nbsp"--triggers this frustrating error.

The easiest way to fix this issue is to use HTML entity numbers, which means changing   to  .

For a comprehensive listing of HTML entities with names and numbers, see:

W3 School's HTML Entity reference page.

Official W3C Page on Entity Sets.