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**Category:** Confluence Cloud\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 19, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/rest-error-parsing-xhtml-unexpected-character/58460 "2022-05-19T21:34:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@AlecTremblay](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AlecTremblay)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/rest-error-parsing-xhtml-unexpected-character/58460/1 "2022-05-19T21:34:19Z")
Hello,
I’ve been working on creating a page in Confluence from a template with REST. I’ll been using the approach from [this thread](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-i-create-a-new-page-from-a-users-template-using-rest-api/qaq-p/1059884)
When I pass in a format that contains only text, the code works and creates the page correctly. However, when I pass in a format with a macro, I get a response like this:
```auto
"message": "com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.exceptions.BadRequestException: Error parsing xhtml: Unexpected character '\\' (code 92) in start tag Expected a quote\n at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,509]"
```
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**Author:**  [@AlecTremblay](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/AlecTremblay)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/rest-error-parsing-xhtml-unexpected-character/58460/2 "2022-05-24T14:23:21Z")
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