title: invalid XML file?
body: <p>I wrote the following file in Visual Studio 2008 as a new XML file, and it reports the following error. What is the error message about and why it is treated as a wrong format XML file?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the XML file and related error message.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;Foo&gt;&amp;#x2;&lt;/Foo&gt;
  
  Error   1   Character ' ', hexadecimal value 0x2 is illegal in XML documents.   XMLFile1.xml    2   6   Miscellaneous Files
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>thanks in avdance,
  George</p>