why percent sign is not accepted in some cases in xml-text field when xml is deserialized with C#

Question

<name>Hello '"world", ü ë &amp%;</name>
<label>''MHU233%;'</label>

XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader) throws an InvalidOperationException in first case above. Would like to know what is wrong and why latter is ok. XmlReader is created with XmlSettings in constructor where Xml-schema is in SchemaSet.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You've got an invalid entity there:

&amp%;

It should be:

&

The & says it's the start of an entity. There's no entity called amp% which is why you've got a problem - indeed, percent signs aren't even allowed in entity names. Basically your input XML file is invalid.