How to read XML data from the header of a mixed xml/binary file in C#

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I have the task to write a reader for a file format with the following specification:

1. First section is plain xml with metadata (utf-8);


2. Last section is a stream of 16bit values (binary);


3. These two sections are separated by one byte with value 29 (group separator in the ASCII table).

I see two ways to read the xml part of the file. The first one is to build a string byte by byte until I find the separator.

The other is to use some library that would parse the xml and automatically detect the end of well-formed xml.

The question is: is there any .NET library that would stop automatically after the last closing tag in the XML?

(or, can anyone suggest a saner way to read this kind of file format?)

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heltonbiker

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How to read XML data from the header of a mixed xml/binary file in C#