root element is missing

[Ahmed Galal]

whats wrong in this xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<root xmlns=''>
<data xmlns=''>
<name>ahmed galal</name>
<name>tamer galal</name>
</data>
</root>

if nothin wrong then why everytime i try to use XmlDocument.Load() it throws an System.Xml.XmlException with message "Root element is missing" any help ?

[DavidNohejl]

I have no idea. But from the top of my head, try remove empty namespaces. David

[Ahmed Galal]

thanx for ur reply, i think i found the clue, but its not about namespaces at the begin i was reading the xml data from a stream using XmlDocument.Load() and thats why i had the problem, but finally i tried to read the stream into a string then i use XmlDocument.LoadXml() instead and thats worked fine, but i still don't know why i can't read from the stream directly while XmlDocument.Load() function supports that. anyway thanx :)

[DavidNohejl]

hmm I don't know but it could be some encoding issue.. was that xml file really UTF-8 encoded? I mean, try to open it in notepad and re-save with UTF-8 encoding. (assuming you have notepad in WinXP or similar which allows that. VS can do it too IIRC) David

[Ahmed Galal]

actually its not a xml file, its just generated xml send through XmlHttp from the client to the server, and i also don't know about the UTF-8 i just choosed any encoding.