Unable to read the XML declaration

[The Kiddie]

Hi,
I am reading a XML document and parsing it into a listbox. I'm juat
learning XML and i can't find a way to read the Xml declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
In the debugger I can see that there is a declaration element to the
XMLDocument, but this not recognised by the compiler. I can get it
through the parsing the InnerText but surely there is a better way to
get it than that.

Cheers,

JD

[Martin Honnen]

The Kiddie wrote:

I am reading a XML document and parsing it into a listbox. I'm juat
learning XML and i can't find a way to read the Xml declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
In the debugger I can see that there is a declaration element to the
XMLDocument, but this not recognised by the compiler. I can get it
through the parsing the InnerText but surely there is a better way to
get it than that.

Are you writing your own XML parser or are you using one of the .NET
classes (XmlTextReader, XmlDocument/DOM, XPathDocument)?
XmlTextReader exposes the Encoding, and DOM (in .NET) models the XML
declaration as a node of type XmlDeclaration which has properties
Encoding, Standalone and Version.
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Martin Honnen
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