Question

XDocument.Load throws an exception when using an XML file with version 1.1 instead of 1.0:

Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Version number '1.1' is invalid. Line 1, position 16.

Any clean solutions to resolve the error (without regex) and load the document?

Answer 1

Initial reaction, just to confirm that I can reproduce this:

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;

class Test
{   
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.1\" ?><root><sub /></root>";
        XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
        Console.WriteLine(doc);
    }
}

Results in this exception:

Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Version number '1.1' is invalid. Line 1, position 16.
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseXmlDeclaration(Boolean isTextDecl)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
   at System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Load(XmlReader reader, LoadOptions options)
   at System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse(String text, LoadOptions options)
   at System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse(String text)
   at Test.Main(String[] args)

It’s still failing as of .NET 4.6.