Question

I am reading an XML string with XDocument

XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmltext));
        reader.Read();
        XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(reader);

Then I grab the content of some tags and put them within tags in a different string.
When I try to Load this string in the same way I did with the first, I get an error “An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 1, position 344.”.

I think it should be parsed correctly since it has beem parsed before so I guess I am missing something here.

I am reading and copying the content of the first XML with (string)i.Element("field").

I am using .net 4

Answer 1

When I grab the content of the xml that I want to use for building another Xml string I use (string)i.Element("field") and this is converting my Xml into string. My next Xml Parsing does not recognize it as an Element anymore so I solved the problem by not using (string) before I read my element, just i.Element("field") and this works.