http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2004/04/24/119508.aspxDaniel points out a way to read fragments with XmlTextReader , and mentions that I posed the problem. I was working with some rather nasty “XML” that was not well-formed, and had to find a way to successfully parse it. The SgmlReader proveden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2004/04/24/119508.aspx#119548Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:10:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:119548Daniel CazzulinoGood to know the complete scenario. Now it makes even more sense the approach at the stream level as compared to what Oleg suggested about using the special XmlTextReader constructor taking the XmlParsingContext stuff... http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2004/04/24/119508.aspx#119619Sun, 25 Apr 2004 02:22:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:119619kzu.nethttp://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2004/04/24/119508.aspx#120769Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:29:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:120769Enjoy Every SandwichTake Outs for 26 April 2004