Read non standard-conformant XML
I want to read an XML file, which is not completely standard conformant. To be more precise some of its nodes contain text with special characters (see the example below).
<RootElement>
<ConformantNode>Hello</ConformantNode>
<NonConformantNode>You & me</NonConformantNode>
</RootElement>
As you can see "NonConformantNode" contains an & char in its text, which always makes System.Xml.XmlReader throw an exception.
How can I read the content of this document, in other words, how can I read an XML document without automatic character decoding?
Thanks for your help in advance!
P.S.: I already tried setting XmlReaderSettings.CheckCharacters to false, but this doesn't do the trick and reading the entire file into a string and then replacing the special characters is not a good idea, since the files can be quite big and performance is critical.
