XML Error: There are multiple root elements

Question

I am getting XML from a web service. Here is what the XML looks like:

    
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Answer 1

You need to enclose your elements in a surrounding element as XML Documents can have only one root node:

 
    
        
            Text
        
    
    
        
            
                Text
            
            
                Text
            
        
        
            Text
        
    
 

As you're receiving this markup from somewhere else, rather than generating it yourself, you may have to do this yourself by treating the response as a string and wrapping it with appropriate tags, prior to attempting to parse it as XML.

So, you've a couple of choices:

1. Get the provider of the web service to return you actual XML that has one root node
2. Pre-process the XML, as I've suggested above, to add a root node
3. Pre-process the XML to split it into multiple chunks (i.e. one for each node) and process each as a distinct XML Document