Creating XmlReader Objects

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You create XmlReader instances by using the Create method. The XmlReaderSettings class specifies the set of features you want to enable on the XmlReader object.

XmlReaderSettings Class Overview

To enable or disable features of the reader, like specifying a resolver for the reader or enabling DTD processing, you set the properties on the XmlReaderSettings class. The XmlReaderSettings object is then passed to the Create method.

The following table lists the default property settings on the XmlReaderSettings class. For more information about these properties, follow the links to the property reference topics.

Property	Initial value
CheckCharacters	true.
ConformanceLevel	Document.
IgnoreComments	false.
IgnoreProcessingInstructions	false.
IgnoreWhitespace	false.
LineNumberOffset	0.
LinePositionOffset	0.
MaxCharactersFromEntities	0 (There is no limit on the number of characters that result from expanding entities).
MaxCharactersInDocument	0 (There is no limit on the size of the XML document).
NameTable	null.
DtdProcessing	Prohibit
XmlResolver	A new XmlXapResolver object.

Examples of Creating XmlReader Objects

The following topic contains an example that creates XmlReader using Create overload that takes the TextReader as a parameter:

• How to: Parse XML with XmlReader

The following topics contain links to examples that create XmlReader objects by using a Create overload that takes the XmlReaderSettings class as a parameter:

• How to: Load XHTML with a DTD Reference Using XmlPreloadedResolver

• How to: Preload a User-Defined DTD Using XmlPreloadedResolver

• How to: Prepopulate XmlPreloadedResolver with a File Downloaded from URI Location

• How to: Load a File from a XAP Package Using XmlXapResolver

• How to: Implicitly Load a DTD from a XAP Package Using XmlXapResolver.

See Also

Concepts

Working with XmlPreloadedResolver

Working with XmlXapResolver