XElement.Load Method (String)

This method reads the raw XML into the XML tree. It discards all insignificant white space in the file.

LINQ to XML's loading functionality is built upon XmlReader. Therefore, you might catch any exceptions that are thrown by the XmlReader.Create overload methods and the XmlReader methods that read and parse the document.

The following example creates an XML tree, saves it to a file, and then uses this method to load the XElement from the file.

XElement xmlTree1 = new XElement("Root",
    new XElement("Child", "content")
);
xmlTree1.Save("Tree.xml");

XElement xmlTree2 = XElement.Load("Tree.xml");
Console.WriteLine(xmlTree2.Name);

This example produces the following output:

Root

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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