How to ignore comments when reading a XML file into a XmlDocument?
- by tunnuz
Possible duplicate: How to remove all comment tags from XmlDocument
Hello, I am trying to read a XML document with C#, I am doing it this way:
XmlDocument myData = new XmlDocument();
myData.Load("datafile.xml");
anyway, I sometimes get comments when reading XmlNode.ChildNodes.
For the benefit of who's experiencing the same requirement, here's how I did it at the end:
/** Validate a file, return a XmlDocument, exclude comments */
private XmlDocument LoadAndValidate( String fileName )
{
// Create XML reader settings
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.IgnoreComments = true; // Exclude comments
settings.ProhibitDtd = false;
settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.DTD; // Validation
// Create reader based on settings
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(fileName, settings);
try {
// Will throw exception if document is invalid
XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
document.Load(reader);
return document;
} catch (XmlSchemaException) {
return null;
}
}
Thank you
Tommaso
