Parsing XML data from a string

Question

What I want to do is grab the xml data from a string not a txt file. This works:

// xmlData.txt contains < m t='Hello' u='1337' />

XmlReader config = new XmlTextReader("../../xmldata.txt");
config.Read();
Console.WriteLine("Data: " + config.GetAttribute("t"));

But I want to parse it from a string not a document.

How do I parse XML data from a string?

Also, you could use System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse("string...") — Crowcoder
– Crowcoder, Commented Jan 31, 2015 at 20:40

John Källén · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-31 20:39:18Z

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Use a StringReader and feed it to the XmlTextReader:

StringReader sr = new StringReader("<m t='Hello' u='1337'/>");
XmlReader config = new XmlTextReader(sr);
config.Read();
Console.WriteLine("Data: " + config.GetAttribute("t"));

answered Jan 31, 2015 at 20:39

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2 Comments

SwagBob Over a year ago

Thanks. If anyone else is reading this you need to use System.IO :p

Henk Holterman Over a year ago

Correct, but @SwagBob, an XmlReader is still the wrong tool. It's cumbersome and used for very large files/streams. Make sure you know about class XElement.

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