Thanks for your quick answer.

I don't know in advance the encoding of the html pages and they're
protected by login so I cannot give the urls. most of them seems to
have been generated from word though.

I managed to find a solution that seems to be working so far:

NameTable m_nt = new NameTable();
XmlNamespaceManager m_nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(m_nt);
nsmgr.AddNamespace("w",
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml");

XmlParserContext m_context = new XmlParserContext(null, m_nsmgr, null,
XmlSpace.None);
XmlTextReader m_reader=new
XmlTextReader(MyFileManager.StringFromFile(g_path),
XmlNodeType.Element, m_context);

m_reader.Read();

m_XmlDoc.Load(m_reader);

The default encoding in the XmlTextReader seems to be UTF-8, but by
simply using a XmlParserContext it seems to put it on UTF-16. That
solved my problem (so far), but I cannot explain for sure how it works.

Best regards,

Pierre

Martin Honnen wrote:
> Pierre wrote:
>
>
> > I'm trying to load a HTML page into a XPathDocument (or XmlDocument)
> > using C# and .NET 1.1 in order to apply a xsl on it.
>
> HTML is not XML so using XML parsers or APIs to parse HTML fails unless
> the HTML is XHTML.
>
> > Unfortunatly I get this error:
> > ErrorCode	"Xml_InvalidCharInThisEncoding"	string
> >
> > Example of Html that gives me troubles:
> > <span class="Hyperlink-H"  title="8. Value of factor 'X'">8. Value
> > of factor 'X'</span>
>
> Encoding matters for mapping byte sequences to string characters so the
> above does not allow us to say where something goes wrong.
>
> Do you have a URL of the HTML document you are trying to parse? Do you
> know the encoding the HTML has been authored with?
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/