Summary How to Read a XML from a URL with the XmlTextReader?

Sometimes you have the XML on another server and need to load it from there instead from a local server. For this purpose you can use the XmlTextReader and pass the URL to the constructor. After that you can pass the XmlTextReader object to a XmlDocument or you can read it directly with the XmlTextReader. The following example reads from a rss file from my blog. A rss is nothing than a XML file with pre-defined tags.

Output:

Sonu Kapoor's WebLog

Additional information

<%@ import namespace="System.Xml" %> <%@ page language="C#" debug="true"%> <script runat="server"> void page_load(object sender, System.EventArgs e){ // Create a new XmlTextReader object and load the file XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader("http://weblogs.asp.net/sonukapoor/Rss.aspx"); // Create a new XmlDocument object and pass the XmlTextReader as a object XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(xmlReader); // Select some nodes from the file XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/rss/channel/title"); // Print out the value Response.Write(node.InnerXml); } </script>