Error in loading xml file in XmlDocument

Question

Hi I have below xml file that I am trying to load in xml document using below code -

XmlDocument Doc = new XmlDocument();
Doc.LoadXml(@\"C:\\MappingFiles\\Input         


        

Answer 1

Use XMLDocument.Load(). This accepts an xml file

whereas XMLDocument.LoadXml() accepts an xml string.

Answer 2

If you really want to read it in as a string and don't want to do XMLDocument.Load() as others have suggested, you can do XMLDocument.LoadXml(), but it should be as a string, first:

string myFilePath = @"C:\MappingFiles\InputFile.xml";
string allText = File.ReadAllText(myFilePath);

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
try
{
    xmlDoc.LoadXml(allText);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
}

I found that this can work even when .Load() on the file, itself, does not.

Answer 3

Your calling the wrong method, see this question and answer.

You should be calling XmlDocument.Load.

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In fact, you'd be better off doing

var doc = XDocument.Load("path");

and using linq to xml.