<FileName>test</FileName><CreatedDate>10/10/2008</CreatedDate><Size></Size>

When the sp runs, I got the following error:
Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.

Any clue what’s wrong?

Thanks.

I Know that Varchar(Max) has this problems with invalid characters and i have mentioned about that on the second comment on this article about invalid characters.

and im not storing the xml in the database. its just that i pass open xml and it retrieve the data from that and insert in to the table, and using WITH Statement im sure its very easy to find out reason.

Thanks.
Aneef

this is not a problem with the code. this happens because of encoding errors. There are several basic approaches to solving this: escaping problematic characters (< becomes <, & becomes &, etc.), escaping entire blocks of text with CDATA sections, or putting an encoding declaration at the start of the feed.

Another common error is the inclusion of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) before the XML Declaration. If an XML Declaration is included, it must be the first thing in the document.

you can identify whether the XML Generated by the system is valid or invalid by writing it to an xml file in disk and try to open it with any browser. you can write XML to file like this:

ds.WriteXml(string filename);