dotnet xml: how to find nodes at xml file without complete load the xml file

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You can read through the XML document with an Xml(Text)Reader, that is
forward only pull parsing where your code only pulls in the current node.
The documentation is here
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlTextReaderClassTopic.asp>
for .NET 1.x and here
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader(VS.80).aspx>
for .NET 2.0.
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML