Name cannot begin with the ' ' character

Question

I\'m parsing some XML in C#. I\'m getting it from a database, and so converting it to a MemoryStream before reading it with an XmlTextReader. The problem is that I get this

Answer 1

Another common source of this error is when the XmlReader attempts to read your scripts as xml. That's a good reason to start commenting out scripts after the script tags. They will still run: