How to resolve this error: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup

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Error when deploying knowledge fields via sfdx. I am getting following error :

Has anyone encountered this in the past ?

I have checked and the current deploying user has the knowledge user checkbox checked on the org. It is giving error on the object while I am NOT deploying the object file but only fields

David Edwards · Accepted Answer

After struggling, I got it to work and now the error: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup is resolved. The fact that I was using git to move file to and from branches, I got a merge conflict on the file but ignore it, so There was this line added to the xml :

  &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;> conflict here

Which was breaking my xml

How to resolve this error: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup

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