"Yuriy" <y.dot.solodkyy@gmail.com> wrote in message news:326016632437492434701793@msnews.microsoft.com...
> any ideas how to read XML fragment from TextReader? XmlTextReader constructor accepts only Stream or string as source Do I miss
> something?

> "Yuriy" <y.dot.solodkyy@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:326016632437492434701793@msnews.microsoft.com...
>
>> any ideas how to read XML fragment from TextReader? XmlTextReader
>> constructor accepts only Stream or string as source Do I miss
>> something?
>>
> You've missed the constructor that takes a TextReader. You would use
> the XmlTextReader( string, ...) constructor if the XML is in a file or
> at some URL. You would wrap a string containing an XML fragment in a
> StringReader (which IS-A TextReader) and pass that to the
> XmlTextReader( TextReader, ...) con- structor.
>
> Herein really lies your solution. Put the XML fragment into a string,
> and wrap it in a System.IO.StringReader. Pass that to the
> TextReader-accepting con- structor of XmlTextReader.
>
> There's a caveat to be aware of. If the fragment contains multiple
> top-level
> elements, then you must make XmlTextReader believe it is a document
> with
> a single root element.
> The easiest way to do this is to wrap these top-level elements as a
> group in
> a single "make-believe" root element so that it appears to
> XmlTextReader
> as a document, and compensate for this artificial container element
> when
> doing your XML processing.
> // . . .
> xmlFragmentStr = string.Format("<root>{0}</root>",
> xmlFragmentStr);
> StringReader readerSource = new StringReader( xmlFragmentStr);
> XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader( readerSource);
> // . . .
> Derek Harmon
>