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

I had a lot of errors because of this. Make sure you don't have spaces. There are two places I removed spaces that worked for me.

Was:

xmlns: xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

What worked:

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

There was a space here too: < abc:def >. Remove all the spaces around the < and the >.