From: "Santosh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i get a error when i use between the tags.. > > <custom-tag> </custom-tag> > Because nbsp is an entity in HTML, but not in XML. Try to read a file like that with Internet Explorer. You might write instead just <custom-tag/>. This is the error reported by MS IE5 Reference to undefined entity 'nbsp'. Line 2, Position 14 <custom-tag> </custom-tag> -------------^