XML Error: There are multiple root elements

Question

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

    
        Text
    



        

Answer 1

You can do it without modifying the XML stream: Tell the XmlReader to not be so picky. Setting the XmlReaderSettings.ConformanceLevel to ConformanceLevel.Fragment will let the parser ignore the fact that there is no root node.

        XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
        settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
        using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(tr,settings))
        {
             ...
        }

Now you can parse something like this (which is an real time XML stream, where it is impossible to wrap with a node).

  1354902435238
  7073822


  1354902435341
  7d1300786a0000000bf9458b0518000000000000000000000000000000000c0c030306001b


  1354902435345
  fd1260780912ff3028fea5ffc0387d640fa550f40fbdf7afffe001fff8200fff00f0bf0e000042201421100224ff40312300111400004f000000e0c0fbd1e0000f10e0fccc2ff0000f0fe00f00f0eed00f11e10d010021420401


  1354902435347
  fd126078ad11fc4015fefdf5b042ff1010223500000000000000003007ff00f20e0f01000e0000dc0f01000f000000000000004f000000f104ff001000210f000013010000c6da000000680ffa807800200000000d00c0f0