An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line1, position 844

Question

I have got the following exception from the below code block.

An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line1, position 844.

I was trying

Answer 1

If your XML is being constructed with string concatenation then you'll be wanting to escape it. & should become & while < and > should become < and > respectively.

There may be others too. Of course you should really use a proper XML encoder rather than trying to do it yourself for many reasons.