If your trying to preserve the HTML data for the SOAP client to display, (i.e, the client gets the characters ' ' and not ' ') then this should work... <custom-tag>&nbsp;</custom-tag> Michele Costabile wrote: > > 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> > -------------^
