InfoPath Dev

 Hi

Is there anything special that needs to be done to allow infopath to use special characters in an xml document that I want to use as a secondary receive data connection (dropdown field). I get the error: "The form contains XML that cannot be parsed:Reference to undefined entity 'ndash'."

I can't get some entities to work like ndash. Others do like & , < , and >. Are there only a select few that infopath will take? Thanks.

– isn't a predefined XML entity. XML only has 5 predefined entities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references#Predefined_entities_in_XML

Anything else has to be declared in a DTD, but I don't know if you can use a DTD with a secondary data source in InfoPath (somewhat doubtful).  You can certainly use a numeric character reference to represent any character you want. Based on the above Wikipedia page, it appears that ndash would be –