There is an error in XML document (1, 41)

Question

When i am doing Deserialize of xml i am getting "There is an error in XML document (1, 41)." . Can anyone tell me about what is the issue is all about.

 public static T DeserializeFromXml<T>(string xml)
        {
            T result;
            XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
            using (TextReader tr = new StringReader(xml))
            {
                result = (T)ser.Deserialize(tr);
            }
            return result;
        }

I use this function to do it.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-16'?>
<Message>
<FirstName>Hunt</FirstName>
<LastName>DAvid</LastName>
</Message>

Answer 1

Ensure your Message class looks like below:

[Serializable, XmlRoot("Message")]
public class Message
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

This works for me fine:

string xml = File.ReadAllText("c:\\Message.xml");
var result = DeserializeFromXml<Message>(xml);

MSDN, XmlRoot.ElementName:

The name of the XML root element that is generated and recognized in an XML-document instance. The default is the name of the serialized class.

So it might be your class name is not Message and this is why deserializer was not able find it using default behaviour.