How to fix "EntityRef: expecting ';' / An error occurred while parsing EntityName" in browsers, feeds, apps
EntityRef: expecting ';' / An error occurred while parsing EntityName
What this error means
There is a bare & in the text (such as "Salt & Pepper") that should be written as &.
Why it happens
- Text copied from documents or spreadsheets
- Feeds that do not escape their content
How to fix it
- Replace & with & in text
- Upload it here to escape every bare & automatically
About XML file files
XML must be well-formed: every tag closed, in order, with special characters escaped. One unclosed tag breaks the whole file.