There is no Unicode byte order mark. Cannot switch to Unicode

Question

I am writing an XML validator with XSD.

Below is what I did, but when the validator reached the line while (list.Read()) it gives me the error

Answer 1

The reality of your file's encoding appears to conflict with that specified by your XML declaration. If your file actually uses one-byte characters, declaring encoding="utf-16" won't change it to use two-byte characters, for example.

Try removing the conflicting encoding from the XML declaration. Replace

with

You may also be able to load the file into a string as a work-around using LoadXML().