New Post: How to handle free text containg characters such as ''?

The example below does not work:

<span class='ocrx_word' title='bbox 741 2162 915 2291'><>¢f,/‘;/.</span>

Whenever a html file is processed using the HTML Agility Pack (HAP) libraries that I am using the above free text found above between the span tags fails and throws an exception.

The below works:

<span class='ocrx_word' title='bbox 741 2162 915 2291'>¢f,/‘;/.</span>

For some reason it doesn't like '<' and '>'. Any ideas how to get around this problem, HAP seems to be doing the job for me so far. I don't think I should have to code in a manual step to ensure that angle brackets are properly substituted (& l t ;). Any ideas on how I might solve this problem? I would have thought HAP would have me covered here but it seems like it doesn't.