The situation is directly opposite: I have no idea how you ended up with the "standalone" attribute in the XML prolog. I must confess I never faced with this "mysterious" (see below) attribute before, as all direct ways to produce XML found in the standard libraries won't produce this attribute, unless you intentionally create it, of course.
About this attribute and its use, please see
http://www.xmlplease.com/standalone[
^].
By the way, I don't know why this attribute can do anything wrong. But of course, you have every right to avoid having it.
So, just in case, let me overview all standard methods of working with XML directly. Of course, this review does not include various forms of serialization (which you might have faces with) or
Data Contract (which I always highly recommend). Let's see:
- Use
System.Xml.XmlDocument class. It implements DOM interface; this way is the easiest and good enough if the size if the document is not too big.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^]. - Use the classes
System.Xml.XmlTextWriter and System.Xml.XmlTextReader; this is the fastest way of reading, especially is you need to skip some data.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwriter.aspx[^], http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlreader.aspx[^]. - Use the class
System.Xml.Linq.XDocument; this is the most adequate way similar to that of XmlDocument, supporting LINQ to XML Programming.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^], http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387063.aspx[^].
—SA
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