Question

I have a Xdocument that is populated as follows:

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd());

This gives me an XDocument that looks as follows:

<GetReportAsXMLString>
     <report>
        <reportItem Count ="562..................
</GetReportAsXMLStringResult>

Anything between the tag is all just a giant string(Black). How would I get this portion of the document to format as XML? The tag is also part of the string. I just don’t know how to make this show it as not XML.

Thanks

Answer 1

It’s hard to say from your description, but it looks like you’ll need to first parse the response stream (valid xml), which contains another xml document (as a string). You’ll need to extract the string from the ‘outer’ xml document and parse it into a new one:

psuedocode:

XDocument outer = response.GetResponseStream();
String innerXml = outer.Element("report").Value;
XDocument inner = XDocument.Parse(innerXml);