c# read XML file not correctly formatted

Question

I have to read an XML file, that has no root element, to extract contained data. The XML has many elements like these:

Answer 1

You xml is simply not well formed which often happens when xml data is merged together. Your xml has multiple tags at root level so use XML reader like below :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;


namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
    class Program
    {
        const string FILENAME = @"c:\temp\test.xml";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
            settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
            XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(FILENAME,settings);
            while (!reader.EOF)
            {
                try
                {
                    if (reader.Name != "LOG_x0020_ParityRate")
                    {
                        reader.ReadToFollowing("LOG_x0020_ParityRate");
                    }
                    if (!reader.EOF)
                    {
                        XElement parityRate = (XElement)XElement.ReadFrom(reader);

                        ParityRate newLog = new ParityRate();
                        ParityRate.logs.Add(newLog);
                        newLog.date = DateTime.ParseExact((string)parityRate.Element("DATE"), "MM/dd/yyyy - hh:mm", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
                        newLog.name = (string)parityRate.Element("CHANNELNAME");
                        newLog.sql = (string)parityRate.Element("SQL");
                        newLog.hotel = (int)parityRate.Element("ID_HOTEL");
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                }
            }
        }
    }
    public class ParityRate
    {
        public static List logs = new List();

        public DateTime date { get; set; }
        public string name { get; set; }
        public string sql { get; set; }
        public int hotel { get; set; }
    }
}