Removing preprocessing instructions from an XML in c#

Question

How can i remove preprocessing instructions from an XML in a greener way? suppose that I have this xml in a string variable (which is a property of a class),I wante

Answer 1

If you can load it in an XmlDocument: FirstChild returns the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> node, and NextSibling returns the rest.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
XmlNode node = doc.FirstChild.NextSibling;

Edit: Your xml looks a lot like the example on msdn for XPathNavigator.Select. Have you tried using that?

Edit2: You can get the name of the top level element using:

string topLevelNode = doc.DocumentElement.Name;

Answer 2

Try the code below. It will load the text to XmlDocument object first

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlAsText);

Then you can get the OutherXml using below:

xmlDoc.DocumentElement.OuterXml;