How do I create an xmlElement from the current node of a xmlReader?

Question

If I have an xmlreader instance how can I use it to read its current node and end up with a xmlElement instance?

Answer 1

Not tested, but how about via an XmlDocument:

    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load(reader);
    XmlElement el = doc.DocumentElement;

Alternatively (from the cmoment), something like:

    doc.LoadXml(reader.ReadOuterXml());

But actually I'm not a fan of that... it forces an additional xml-parse step (one of the more CPU-expensive operations) for no good reason. If the original is being glitchy, then perhaps consider a sub-reader:

    using (XmlReader subReader = reader.ReadSubtree())
    {
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load(subReader);
        XmlElement el = doc.DocumentElement;
    }