Fragmented XML string parsing with Linq

Question

Let\'s say I have a fragmented XML as follows.

I can

Answer 1

Using the XNode.ReadFrom() method, you can easily create a method that returns a sequence of XNodes:

public static IEnumerable<XNode> ParseXml(string xml)
{
    var settings = new XmlReaderSettings
    {
        ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment,
        IgnoreWhitespace = true
    };

    using (var stringReader = new StringReader(xml))
    using (var xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader, settings))
    {
        xmlReader.MoveToContent();
        while (xmlReader.ReadState != ReadState.EndOfFile)
        {
            yield return XNode.ReadFrom(xmlReader);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

I'm not exactly an expert on this topic, but I can't see why this method wouldn't work:

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse("<dummy>" + xmlFragment + "</dummy>");

The one thing about using this approach is that you have to remember that a dummy node is the root of your document. Obviously, you could always just query on the child Nodes property to get the information you need.