Title: PCDATA invalid Char error
Last modified: February 8, 2022

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# PCDATA invalid Char error

 *  Resolved [trmkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trmkr/)
 * (@trmkr)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/)
 * Hello,
 * I am getting “error on line 16196 at column 11: PCDATA invalid Char value 16”
   since the last update. Can you help please?
 * Thank you.
 * ps: If I reinstall a previous version, will all my feeds remain intact?

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 *  [supportadtribes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supportadtribes/)
 * (@supportadtribes)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15340500)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for using our plugin and reaching out to us. The error probably means 
   you are using a character in your product description that is breaking the feed.
 * Can you share your product feed URL with us so we can have a look?
 *  Thread Starter [trmkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trmkr/)
 * (@trmkr)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15340668)
 * Hello,
 * Thank you for your quick reply. Can I share my feed URL privately?
 * Regards
 *  [supportadtribes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supportadtribes/)
 * (@supportadtribes)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15340724)
 * Sure, just reach out to us here: [https://adtribes.io/contact-form/](https://adtribes.io/contact-form/)
 *  Thread Starter [trmkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trmkr/)
 * (@trmkr)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15340845)
 * Thank you 🙂
 *  [yemlihakorkmaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yemliha24/)
 * (@yemliha24)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15429641)
 * i have same problem
    how to fix ?
 *  [supportadtribes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supportadtribes/)
 * (@supportadtribes)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15430606)
 * Most likely there is a character in one of your fields, probably the product 
   description that is not allowed in XML and breaking the feed. Try changing the
   field mapping for your description field to the “Unfiltered product description”
   attribute.
 *  Thread Starter [trmkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trmkr/)
 * (@trmkr)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15432677)
 * I exported all product data to Excel and used Clean function to find the products
   which have invalid characters. After editing the product descriptions, the error
   message disappeared.
 *  [yemlihakorkmaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yemliha24/)
 * (@yemliha24)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15479546)
 * The solution is to run this code in phpmyadmin.
 * UPDATE asID21_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘]]>’, ”);
 *  [yemlihakorkmaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yemliha24/)
 * (@yemliha24)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pcdata-invalid-char-error/#post-15479553)
 * Change your table asID21_posts

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