When importing data from an atom feed in PowerPivot, I get the following error:
XML parsing failed at line 7, column 727: Semicolon expected.
The feed currently only returns two entries, and PowerPivot's "Preview & Filter" feature has no problems displaying these entries. However, when attempting to import the rows, PowerPivot reports the error above.
I am using the latest version of PowerPivot for Excel 2010.
What could be causing this error?
Other information:
- I tried saving the raw XML from the feed to a file - PowerPivot reads this "feed" just fine!
- Basic authentication (user/password) is required to access the feed.
- I suspected it might have to do with my locale settings (Denmark), but changing these to United States had no effect.
- I have validated the raw feed contents using the Atom Feed Validator, and it comes out valid.
- I tried locating the position to which the error refers, but the whole XML feed is returned without insignificant white space, i.e. as a single line. Where is line 7 then?
All of the above makes me think that this has nothing to do with the feed itself, but how PowerPivot handles the feed.
Update: This error doesn't occur on our client's computer, thus confirming that the problem lies within PowerPivot and not the feed.
