How does one test a file to see if it's a valid XML file before loading it with XDocument.Load()?

Question

I\'m loading an XML document in my C# application with the following:

XDocument xd1 = new XDocument();
xd1 = XDocument.Load(myfile);

but be

Answer 1

As has previously been mentioned "valid xml" is tested by XmlDocument.Load(). Just catch the exception. If you need further validation to test that it's valid against a schema, then this does what you're after:

using System.Xml; 
using System.Xml.Schema; 
using System.IO; 

static class Program
{     
    private static bool _Valid = true; //Until we find otherwise 

    private static void Invalidated() 
    { 
        _Valid = false; 
    } 

    private static bool Validated(XmlTextReader Xml, XmlTextReader Xsd) 
    { 

        var MySchema = XmlSchema.Read(Xsd, new ValidationEventHandler(Invalidated)); 

        var MySettings = new XmlReaderSettings(); 
        { 
            MySettings.IgnoreComments = true; 
            MySettings.IgnoreProcessingInstructions = true; 
            MySettings.IgnoreWhitespace = true; 
        } 

        var MyXml = XmlReader.Create(Xml, MySettings); 
        while (MyXml.Read) { 
          //Parsing...
        } 
        return _Valid; 
    } 

    public static void Main() 
    { 
        var XsdPath = "C:\\Path\\To\\MySchemaDocument.xsd"; 
        var XmlPath = "C:\\Path\\To\\MyXmlDocument.xml"; 

        var XsdDoc = new XmlTextReader(XsdPath); 
        var XmlDoc = new XmlTextReader(XmlPath); 

        var WellFormed = true; 

        XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument(); 
        try { 
            xDoc.Load(XmlDoc); 
        } 
        catch (XmlException Ex) { 
            WellFormed = false; 
        } 

        if (WellFormed & Validated(XmlDoc, XsdDoc)) { 
          //Do stuff with my well formed and validated XmlDocument instance... 
        } 
    } 
}