You can do it without modifying the XML stream: Tell the XmlReader to not be so picky.
Setting the XmlReaderSettings.ConformanceLevel
to ConformanceLevel.Fragment
will let the parser ignore the fact that there is no root node.
XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(tr,settings))
{
...
}
Now you can parse something like this (which is an real time XML stream, where it is impossible to wrap with a node).
<event>
<timeStamp>1354902435238</timeStamp>
<eventId>7073822</eventId>
</event>
<data>
<time>1354902435341</time>
<payload type="80">7d1300786a0000000bf9458b0518000000000000000000000000000000000c0c030306001b</payload>
</data>
<data>
<time>1354902435345</time>
<payload type="80">fd1260780912ff3028fea5ffc0387d640fa550f40fbdf7afffe001fff8200fff00f0bf0e000042201421100224ff40312300111400004f000000e0c0fbd1e0000f10e0fccc2ff0000f0fe00f00f0eed00f11e10d010021420401</payload>
</data>
<data>
<time>1354902435347</time>
<payload type="80">fd126078ad11fc4015fefdf5b042ff1010223500000000000000003007ff00f20e0f01000e0000dc0f01000f000000000000004f000000f104ff001000210f000013010000c6da000000680ffa807800200000000d00c0f0</payload>
</data>