How do I get the XML root node with C

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I know that it s possible to get any XML node using C  if you know the node name  but I want to get the root node so that I can find out the name  Is this possible   Update  I m using XMLTextReader to read in the URL of a file and then loading that into XMLDocument object  Basically I m trying to avoid LINQ to XML  but if there s another  better way then I m always a good student

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Root node is the DocumentElement property of XmlDocument  XmlElement root   xmlDoc DocumentElement   If you only have the node  you can get the root node by   XmlElement root   xmlNode OwnerDocument DocumentElement

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Try this  XElement root   XDocument Load fStream  Root

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I got the same question here   If the document is huge  it is not a good idea to use XmlDocument  The fact is that the first element is the root element  based on which XmlReader can be used to get the root element   Using XmlReader will be much more efficient than using XmlDocument as it doesn t require load the whole document into memory     using  XmlReader reader   XmlReader Create  lt your xml file gt          while  reader Read               first element is the root element       if  reader NodeType    XmlNodeType Element            System Console WriteLine reader Name           break

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XmlDocument xmlDoc   new XmlDocument    xmlDoc Load response GetResponseStream     string rootNode   XmlDoc ChildNodes 0  Name

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Agree with Jewes  XmlReader is the better way to go  especially if working with a larger XML document or processing multiple in a loop - no need to parse the entire document if you only need the document root   Here s a simplified version  using XmlReader and MoveToContent     http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system xml xmlreader movetocontent aspx  using  XmlReader xmlReader   XmlReader Create p fileName       if  xmlReader MoveToContent      XmlNodeType Element      rootNodeName   xmlReader Name

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