XmlTextReader and xml fragment

[Yuriy]

Hi,

any ideas how to read XML fragment from TextReader? XmlTextReader constructor
accepts only Stream or string as source Do I miss something?

thanks
Yuriy

[Derek Harmon]

"Yuriy" <y.************@gmail.com> wrote in message news:32**********************@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

[Yuriy Solodkyy]

Hi,

it is not suitable for large XML fragments. I have already implemented a
wrapper that
does what I need, but it is interesting why TextReader is not considered
as a source of
by .NET framework in this case. I allow that Stream choice can be ommited,
because it
is easely wrapped into TextReader.

Anyway thank you for answer

"Yuriy" <y.************@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:32**********************@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