split xml document into chunks

Question

I have a large xml document that needs to be processed 100 records at a time

It is being done within a Windows Service written in c#.

The structure is as fo

Answer 1

Naive, iterative, but works [EDIT: in .NET 3.5 only]

    public List ChunkDocket(XDocument docket, int chunkSize)
    {
        var newDockets = new List();
        var d = new XDocument(docket);
        var orders = d.Root.Elements("order");
        XDocument newDocket = null;

        do
        {
            newDocket = new XDocument(new XElement("docket"));
            var chunk = orders.Take(chunkSize);
            newDocket.Root.Add(chunk);
            chunk.Remove();
            newDockets.Add(newDocket);
        } while (orders.Any());

        return newDockets;
    }