Parsing XML

The topics in this section describe how to parse XML documents.

In This Section

Topic	Description
How to: Parse a String	Shows how to parse a string to create an XML tree.
How to: Load XML from a File	Shows how to load XML from a URI using the Load method.
Preserving White Space while Loading or Parsing XML	Describes how to control the white space behavior of LINQ to XML while loading XML trees.
How to: Catch Parsing Errors	Shows how to detect badly formed or invalid XML.
How to: Create a Tree from an XmlReader	Shows how to create an XML tree directly from an XmlReader.
How to: Stream XML Fragments from an XmlReader	Shows how to stream XML fragments by using an XmlReader. When you have to process arbitrarily large XML files, it might not be feasible to load the whole XML tree into memory. Instead, you can stream XML fragments.