Data at the root level is invalid

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I have the following XML document    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt Offices id  0  enabled  false  gt     lt office   gt   lt  Offices gt    When I try to access it through C    XmlDocument doc   new XmlDocument    doc LoadXml HttpContext Current Server MapPath  officeList xml       I get this error       Data at the root level is invalid  Line 1  position 1    What is wrong with this line

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This   doc LoadXml HttpContext Current Server MapPath  officeList xml       should be   doc Load HttpContext Current Server MapPath  officeList xml       LoadXml   is for loading an XML string  not a file name

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I found that the example I was using had an xml document specification on the first line  I was using a stylesheet I got at this blog entry and the first line was    lt  xmlversion  1 0 encoding  utf-8   gt    which was causing the error  When I removed that line  so that the stylesheet started with the line   lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0  xmlns DTS  www microsoft com SqlServer Dts  xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  gt    my transform worked   By the way  that blog post was the first good  easy-to follow example I have found for trying to get information from the XML definition of an SSIS package  but I did have to modify the paths in the example for my SSIS 2008 packages  so you might too  I also created a version to extract the  flow  from the precedence constraints  My final one looks like this        lt xsl stylesheet version  1 0  xmlns DTS  www microsoft com SqlServer Dts  xmlns xsl  http   www w3 org 1999 XSL Transform  gt       lt xsl output method  text  encoding  utf-8    gt       lt xsl template match     gt       lt xsl text gt From To  lt  xsl text gt       lt xsl text gt   lt  xsl text gt       lt xsl for-each select    DTS PrecedenceConstraints DTS PrecedenceConstraint  gt         lt xsl value-of select   DTS From   gt         lt xsl text gt   lt  xsl text gt         lt xsl value-of select   DTS To   gt          lt xsl text gt   lt  xsl text gt         lt xsl text gt   lt  xsl text gt       lt  xsl for-each gt       lt  xsl template gt   lt  xsl stylesheet gt    and gave me a CSV with the tilde as my line delimiter  I replaced that with a line feed in my text editor then imported into excel to get a with look at the data flow in the package

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For the record    Data at the root level is invalid  means that you have attempted to parse something that is not an XML document  It doesn t even start to look like an XML document  It usually means just what you found  you re parsing something like the string  C  inetpub wwwroot mysite officelist xml

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