Question

How can I parse an xml in the midle of other text.

Example: If I have this text file in C# how can I parse the xml part:

-> Begin of file

2010-01-01 tehgvdhjjsad  
2010-01-02 dsjhnxcucncu  
14:55 iahsdahksdjh  

<Answer>
<headline>
<a1>1</a1>
<a2>2</a2>
</headline>
</Answer>
2010-01-05 tehgvddsda  
2010-01-05 ddsada  
22:55 iahsdahksdjh2  

<Answer>
<headline>
<a1>11</a1>
<a2>22</a2>
</headline>
</Answer>
-> End of file

Answer 1

Several ways:

 1. Do a string.IndexOf("<Answer>") and then use a substring to chop off the header information.  Then add the substring like this:
xmlString = "<Answers>" + substringXml + "</Answers>".  Then you could parse the xml as valid XML.
 2. Use an xmltextreader created with fragment conformance levels and read through the xml.  Only stop on the Answer elements and do processing.
 3. Add a root element to the document and open it in an XmlDocument and use an xpath expression to read out the Answer elements.