inabox/InABox.Core/XMLExtensions.cs

using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace InABox.Core
{
    public static class XmlHelperExtentions
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///     Loads a string through .Load() instead of .LoadXml()
        ///     This prevents character encoding problems.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="xmlDocument"></param>
        /// <param name="xmlString"></param>
        /// <param name="encoding"></param>
        public static void LoadString(this XmlDocument xmlDocument, string xmlString, Encoding? encoding = null)
        {
            encoding ??= Encoding.UTF8;

            // Encode the XML string in a byte array
            var encodedString = encoding.GetBytes(xmlString);

            // Put the byte array into a stream and rewind it to the beginning
            using (var ms = new MemoryStream(encodedString))
            {
                ms.Flush();
                ms.Position = 0;

                // Build the XmlDocument from the MemorySteam of UTF-8 encoded bytes
                xmlDocument.Load(ms);
            }
        }
    }
}