can someone please tell me why this xml formatting is incorrect and why my vb.net application does not want to read it?
http://sites.google.com/site/shadchanproject/Home/lots1.xml
is it OK to have an apostrophe between the tags? my vb debugger is saying: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 33, position 10. (this is where i put the apostrophe)
XML elements cannot begin with digits. You should try to stick with just letters. Prefix it with some extra data if you need to, to get it to be valid XML.
Is the file static or being generated dynamically? Something in the download causes the content to be truncated...
EDIT:
Actually; I downloaded the xml and it looks fine. I did notice the use of unescaped quotes though.
Do you need to replace the ' with ' ?
I suspect it is because you are using numbers for your element names. Try prefixing these with another character, and it should parse.
You can't have a tag that start with a number, see specifications.
substitute 7190 and 7191 tags with, for example, _7190 and _7191 and your xml will bi well formed