Loading xml with encoding UTF 16 using XDocument

Question

I am trying to read the xml document using XDocument method . but i am getting an error when xml has

Answer 1

It looks like the file you are trying to read is not encoded as Unicode. You can replicate the behavior by trying to open a file encoded as ANSI with the encoding in the XML file specified as utf-16.

If you can't ensure that the file is encoded properly, then you can read the file into a stream (letting the StreamReader detect the encoding) and then create the XDocument:

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path, true))
{
    XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(sr);
}