What causes an “Expected entity” posting error for Amazon Merchants@ items?
When posting to Amazon Merchants@ we send your items to their system in batches instead of individually like other marketplaces. When an error occurs for a single item in the batch, Amazon rejects all of the items in that batch. One error that we see from time to time is the following. Error: XML parsing fatal error at line 8, column 12961: Expected entity name for reference The most likely cause of this error is that the SKU or description contains either a &, >, or < in one or more items in the batch of ads that was sent to Amazon. You will need to check any items that were rejected and make sure that these characters are not present in each SKU and then try posting the items again.
