Re: Illegal Charaters in path

Hi Claes,

I am getting this file from web. I am downloading this file using
webclient and how how it is adding 1 character before the actual file.
Stripping the first character solved the problem though. But why and
what is this first character?

Thanks.

Claes Bergefall wrote:
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Hi,

I have a small XML file, I uploaded to a web page. I have the following
code to convert the content I downloaded from web to xml and is giving
"Illegal characters in path", but when I try to see the value in XML
viewer (through add watch) and is showing the content correctly.

Here is the code
..
string b = wc.DownloadString(myurl);
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(str);
....

Could someone tell me what is wrong?

XmlDocument.Load doesn't have an overlaod that loads XML from a string. The
string overload expects a filename. Put your string in a StringReader and
then load from that:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
StringReader reader = new StringReader(b);
doc.Load(reader);


When I change the Load to LoadXml I get 'Data at the root level is
invalid. Line 1, position 1"

Here is the XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Files>
<Application key="one">
<Version>1.0</Version>
</Application>
</Files>


LoadXml works with the above XML. Not sure why you get an error

/claes

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