Hello,

I've been using the XmlReader class to read xml files.
Lately it has had some strange quirks. It seems to ignore elements when
there is no whitespace between them.

ex
<main><textline><textelement>A</textelement>
<textelement>B</textelement> <textelement>C</textelement></textline></main>
(really on one line)

works fine, but with

<main><textline><textelement>A</textelement><textelement>B</textelement><textelement>C</textelement></textline></main>

it skips element B.

and with
<main><textline><textelement>A</textelement>
<textelement>B</textelement><textelement>C</textelement></textline></main>

it skips element C

A short program to demonstrate the problem:

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

namespace XmlTest
{
    class TestXml
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            string xml =
"<main><textline><textelement>A</textelement><textelement>B</textelement><textelement>C</textelement></textline></main>";
            StringReader strReader = new StringReader(xml);
            XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(strReader);
            reader.MoveToContent();
            int i = 0;
            while (!(reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.EndElement &&
reader.Name.Equals("textline")))
            {
                reader.Read();
                if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element &&
reader.Name.Equals("textelement"))
                {
                    string text = reader.ReadElementString();
                    Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", i, text);
                    i++;
                }
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

This now prints
0 A
1 C

It should have printed
0 A
1 B
2 C

Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
I had always thought that whitespace was irrelevant in xml.

Jan Obrestad