Can't load XmlReader into XDocument

Question

I'm trying to load an XmlReader into an XDocument for easier manipulation. The XML is well formed and valid (I double checked). When I try and load it into the XDocument , I get an InvalidOperationException

The XmlReader state should be EndOfFile after this operation.

the code to load this is

public void ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
{
    var doc = XDocument.Load(reader);
}

I've included a sample of the XML that causes the problem. I can serialize and deserialize this class without a problem, but not load it. Any ideas?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ForestView xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"       
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Forest>
 <TreeNodeView>
  <Level>Master</Level>
  <ID>39476b1f-e2f8-4d76-b82e-a5166899ad43</ID>
  <Name>Black Mesa</Name>
  <ServerIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ServerIPAddress>
  <ServerPortNumber>8000</ServerPortNumber>
  <ClientIPAddress>NA</ClientIPAddress>
  <ClientPortNumber>4000</ClientPortNumber>
  <Nodes>
    <Level>Server</Level>
    <NodeID>062c3e03-235d-4d7d-9b60-c6228c9cc89e</NodeID>
    <Name />
    <ServerIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ServerIPAddress>
    <ServerPortNumber>5000</ServerPortNumber>
    <ClientIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ClientIPAddress>
    <ClientPortNumber>4000</ClientPortNumber>
  </Nodes>
  <Nodes>
    <Level>Intermediate</Level>
    <NodeID>9bafdc9e-771e-42cf-8f03-e7e75a67a6d1</NodeID>
    <Name>Jen</Name>
    <ServerIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ServerIPAddress>
    <ServerPortNumber>8001</ServerPortNumber>
    <ClientIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ClientIPAddress>
    <ClientPortNumber>8000</ClientPortNumber>
    <Nodes>
      <Level>Terminal</Level>
      <NodeID>72509141-0ab8-45c1-8042-30afb233b4a8</NodeID>
      <Name>Mary</Name>
      <ServerIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ServerIPAddress>
      <ServerPortNumber>0</ServerPortNumber>
      <ClientIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ClientIPAddress>
      <ClientPortNumber>8001</ClientPortNumber>
    </Nodes>
   </Nodes>
  </TreeNodeView>
 </Forest>
</ForestView>

Answer 1

Quite late answer, in case somebody is having the same issue. You can fix it by using ReadSubtree() on the reader, like:

public void ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
{
     var doc = XDocument.Load(reader.ReadSubtree());
}

Answer 2

This error implies that there is extra data after the reader has loaded what it thinks is an XML document. Please verify that your XML file contains no data after the final closing element and that the XmlReader is initialized to read from the root element or start of the file, and nothing else.

Answer 3

Another late answer, but I ran into a problem with the reader.ReadSubtree() workaround and this ended up working for my situation. The basic approach is reading into a string, then calling XDocument.Parse() :

XDocument doc;
var textReader = reader as XmlTextReader;
if (textReader != null)
{
    var xml = textReader.ReadOuterXml();
    doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
}
else
    doc = XDocument.Load(reader);