Illegal characters in path error while parsing XML in C#

Question

I'm getting an "Illegal characters in path error" while using XMLTextReader method. Basically, I'm sending a long URL to tr.im, and tr.im sends the response as an XML stream, which I'm trying to parse but I get the above mentioned error. Can you guys guide me as to why I'm getting this error and where I'm going wrong? Here's the code:

WebRequest wrURL; Stream objStream; string strURL; wrURL = WebRequest.Create("http://api.tr.im/api/trim_url.xml?url=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(txtURL.Text)); objStream = wrURL.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(); StreamReader objSReader = new StreamReader(objStream); strURL = objSReader.ReadToEnd().ToString(); XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(strURL); //getting the error at this point 

I'm using Visual Studio 2008, Express Edition

Answer 1

The reason why is you are using the constructor of XmlTextReader which takes a file path as the parameter but you're passing XML content instead.

Try the following code

XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(strURL));