Have you tried constructing a StreamReader object (passing in the Stream
object + Encoding into the StreamReader constructor)
then calling XDocument.Load(StreamReader) to create the document?
On 15/04/2012 6:26 PM, Greg Keogh wrote:
Folks, I have an XML file as an embedded resource. The file looks like
this and I know it's utf-8 encoded because in the binary editor I can
see it starts with 0xEFBBBF....
<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<stuff>Foobar</stuff>
</root>
However, when I run the following code to get the raw bytes from the
resource and convert it to a string I don't get the nice string I
expect. The resulting string starts with the character 0xfeff which is
a Unicode BOM and then XDocument dies attempting to parse that string.
using(Stream s =
typeof(Program).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("MyProgram.XMLFile1.xml"))
{
byte[] buff = new byte[s.Length];
s.Read(buff, 0, buff.Length);
string xml = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buff, 0, buff.Length);
XDocument doc2 = XDocument.Parse(xml);
// This dies because xml[0] is the character 0xfeff
}
I've tried different overloads of Encoding classes but it makes no
difference. I could have sworn I was a boffin of bytes and encoding,
but I've no idea what's going on here. Any ideas anyone?
Greg
