Question

There are a lot of tutorials that teach on how to validate XML against a schema. But now I want to validate XML syntax only, not against the schema. Meaning I just want to check whether the XML is well-form, that whether there are closing or opening tag that is not done properly.

Is there anyway I can do that in .Net?

Answer 1

Or if you’re on .NET 3.5, you can use XElement.Load().

LINQ to XML’s loading functionality is
built upon XmlReader. Therefore, you
might catch any exceptions that are
thrown by the XmlReader.Create
overload methods and the XmlReader
methods that read and parse the
document.