.net - Read XElement from XmlReader -

i'm playing around parsing xmpp xml stream. tricky thing xml stream start tag not closed until end of session, i.e. complete dom never received.

<stream:stream>     <features>        <starttls />     </features>     ....     network session persists arbitrary time     ....  </stream:stream> 

i need read xml elements stream without caring root element has not been closed.

ideally work doesn't , i'm assuming it's because reader waiting root element closed.

xelement someelement = xnode.readfrom(xmlreader) xelement; 

the code below (which borrowed jacob reimers) work i'm hoping there more efficient way doesn't involve creating new xmlreader , doing string parsing.

 xmlreader stanzareader = xmlreader.readsubtree();  stanzareader.movetocontent();  string outerstanza = stanzareader.readouterxml();  stanzareader.close();  xelement someelement = xelement.parse(outerstanza); 

you shouldn't need work strings; should able use xelement.load on subtree:

xelement someelement; using(xmlreader stanzareader = xmlreader.readsubtree()) {     someelement = xelement.load(stanzareader); } 

and note isn't "new" xml-reader - heavily tied outer reader (but constrained set of nodes).