Does .Net 4.5 support XML 1.1 yet (for characters invalid in XML 1.0)?

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No, it doesn’t look like XmlReader (the core of much of the XML support in .NET) supports 1.1:

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

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.1\" ?><tag>&#x1</tag>";
        var reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xml));
        while (reader.Read());
    }
}

Output:

Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Version number '1.1' is invalid.
Line 1, position 16.

I’ve looked at XmlReaderSettings to see if anything there would help, but I don’t think it does. Basically I think you’re stuck for the moment 🙁

EDIT: Reading around XML 1.1 a bit, it looks like it’s not widely deployed or recommended, so I’m not particularly surprised that it’s not supported in .NET 4.5. My guess is that it never will be, given that it’s not a particularly new recommendation. The most recent version is the 2nd edition which dates back to 2006. If it’s not supported 7 years later, I suspect there’d have to be some significant event to make it worth supporting in the future.

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