MS Access – XML failed to validate against the schema – Solution!

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Today I hit a snag in my Access 2007 database. I was getting an error message which I’d never seen before. I googled a lot and found that no-one seemed to have an answer.

The error message suggested it was a whitespace problem. So I went through my dataset looking for any strange characters or blank rows where it should expect a value. Nothing!

I then came across the solution. My query had an apersand (&) in the title. “Migration Report & Contact Details” is what I had it saved as. I found this totally by chance as I renamed it to “Migration Report including Contact Details” and it suddenly worked!!

Hopefully this will help other people with a similar problem.

One Comment

  1. Daniel Burke says:

    Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much!!!!!

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