How to check for valid xml in string input before calling .LoadXml()

Question

I would much prefer to do this without catching an exception in LoadXml() and using this results as part of my logic. Any ideas for a solution that doesn\'t in

Answer 1

AS already been said, I'd rather catch the exception, but using XmlParserContext, you could try to parse "manually" and intercept any anomaly; however, unless you're parsing 100 xml fragments per second, why not catching the exception?