Parsing Xml Document by using XDocument.Load(file.FullName)

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Hi all , I am reading the XML file by using XDocument.Load(file). it prompt the exception as "refrence to undeclared entity '©' ". Reason behind is, in the xml file entity '©' is there. Is there anybody knows the solution to get out of it..?? Thanks in advance.

Here is the simple code for the reference::

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(value);
if (!fi.Exists) throw new Exception("xml missing!");

return XDocument.Load(fi.FullName);

Posted 22-Apr-15 2:32am

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TheRealSteveJudge · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-22T03:15:00

Solution 1

An XML file must contain only valid characters:
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valid_characters_in_XML[^]

A workaround could be to read the XML file as text
and then replace any unwanted characters.

Then you must parse the cleaned XML string as described here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ce3x426k(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Posted 22-Apr-15 3:15am

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Member 10989956 22-Apr-15 9:27am

From the above link. I found that the entity is not a valid char in Xml which holds UTF-8 format. I converted that entity into UTF-32 before loading i.e.,
(result = Convert.ToInt32(value);). Then It accept the char and loads.
Thank you steve.:-)

TheRealSteveJudge 22-Apr-15 9:29am

You're welcome!