Summary How to Read a XML from a Stream with XmlTextReader?

Till yet you have seen many examples which reads a XML from a file, but what to do when you need to read the XML file from a stream? For this purpose you can use the constructor from XmlTextReader which accepts a stream as a parameter. The following example illustrates this.

Output:

XML

Additional information

<%@ import namespace="System.Xml" %> <%@ import namespace="System.IO" %> <%@ page language="C#" debug="true"%> <script runat="server"> void page_load(object sender, System.EventArgs e){ StringReader strXML = new StringReader(@ "<?xml version='1.0'?>" + "<CategoryList>" + " <Category>" + " <MainCategory ID='1'>XML</MainCategory>" + " <Description>XML Articles</Description>" + " <Active>Yes</Active>"+ " </Category>" + "</CategoryList>"); // Create a new XmlTextReader and pass the stream as a parameter XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(strXML); // 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 node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/CategoryList/Category/MainCategory"); // Print out the value Response.Write(node.InnerXml); } </script>