Question

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)

Answer 1

You can not expect to close a node with a tag with a different name. Your opening element tag is “7190” and your closing element tag is “7191”. They should be the same.

Plus:[edit: missed tags on reading]

XML elements must follow these naming rules:

1. Names can contain letters, numbers,
   and other characters
2. Names cannot
   start with a number or punctuation
   character
3. Names cannot start with
   the letters xml (or XML, or Xml,
   etc)
4. Names cannot contain spaces