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How to ignore leading whitespace in XML file?

I need to load xml from a file into an XmlDocument. The problem is that the file contains some leading whitespace. (I have no control over the system that produces the file.) Is there any clean/easy way to ignore or strip those characters?

string SamplelRequestFile = @"C:\example.xml";
XmlDocument docXML = new XmlDocument(); 
XmlTextReader xReader = new XmlTextReader(SamplelRequestFile);
XmlReaderSettings ReaderSettings = new XmlReaderSettings();
ReaderSettings.XmlResolver = null;
ReaderSettings.ProhibitDtd = false;
docXML.Load(xReader);

example.xml (note the leading spaces)

  <?xml version="1.0" ?>
<myRoot>
<someElement />
</myRoot>
Solution

  • You'll just have to do something like

     using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"C:\example.xml"))
 {
      XmlDocument docXML = new XmlDocument(); 
      docXML.LoadXml(sr.ReadToEnd().Trim());
      ...
 }