Question

I am trying to read the XML Documentation file (C#) using this ocde –
Type classType = typeof(Point);

        string documentationFileLocation = classType.Assembly.CodeBase;
        if ( !string.IsNullOrEmpty(documentationFileLocation) && documentationFileLocation.StartsWith("file:///") )
        {
            documentationFileLocation = documentationFileLocation.Replace(".exe",".xml");
            documentationFileLocation = documentationFileLocation.Replace("file:///","");
            if(File.Exists(documentationFileLocation))
            {

                XElement document = XElement.Load(documentationFileLocation);
                // Some Code Logic Here using LINQ
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Please Go to Project Properties->Build and check 'XML Documentation file'");

I have a LINQ Query after XElement document = XElement.Load(sr) which dosen`t work,
So I put a breakpoint in the LINQ Query and I am getting this error –
XmlException – Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

How I can fix it?

Edit:Changed the code a little – just deleted StreamReader

Answer 1

Have you tried XDocument.Load() instead of using XElement? If the file begins with an XML declaration <?xml ..., you might get this error when trying to load an element from it.

Edit: the file you pasted on pastebin has no encoding specified. Can you try to open this file in notepad and re-save it as ANSI, the see if it loads? Just to make sure that we don’t have an encoding or BOM problem.