Check wellformedness of XML

Re: Check wellformedness of XML

Hi Tom,

You can read the XML with XmlTextReader. To quote MSDN:

"The XmlTextReader class is an implementation of XmlReader, and provides a
fast, performant parser. It enforces the rules that XML must be well-formed.
It is neither a validating nor a non-validating parser since it does not
have DTD or schema information. It can read text in blocks, or read
characters from a stream."

And an example from another MSDN article to which I have added code to read
the whole contents of the XML stream.

string str = "<ROOT>AQID </ROOT>";
XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(n ew StringReader(st r));
try
{
while (r.Read())
{
}
}
finally
{
r.Close();
}

--
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!


"Tom S" <nothing@nowher e.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way (without a schema or dtd) to check that my XML (currently
> held in a string variable) is wellformed? I've looked on google and in
> the help files and couldn't find anything about this.
> Thanks!
>
> Tom S
>[/color]

Re: Check wellformedness of XML

Great, thanks!

"Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]" <x-code@no-spam-please.hotpop.c om> wrote
in message news:eRgfa2s$EH A.1296@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi Tom,
>
> You can read the XML with XmlTextReader. To quote MSDN:
>
> "The XmlTextReader class is an implementation of XmlReader, and provides a
> fast, performant parser. It enforces the rules that XML must be
> well-formed. It is neither a validating nor a non-validating parser since
> it does not have DTD or schema information. It can read text in blocks, or
> read characters from a stream."
>
> And an example from another MSDN article to which I have added code to
> read the whole contents of the XML stream.
>
> string str = "<ROOT>AQID </ROOT>";
> XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(n ew StringReader(st r));
> try
> {
> while (r.Read())
> {
> }
> }
> finally
> {
> r.Close();
> }
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
> Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!
> http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx
>
> "Tom S" <nothing@nowher e.com> wrote in message
> news:%237cjrIn$ EHA.4072@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. ..[color=green]
>> Is there a way (without a schema or dtd) to check that my XML (currently
>> held in a string variable) is wellformed? I've looked on google and in
>> the help files and couldn't find anything about this.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tom S
>>[/color]
>[/color]