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How to get only xml from file in c#?

I have a problem with parsing file with XmlReader. I have a file containing info like this:
<Users>
<User>
<Email>email</Email>
<Key>23456</Key>
</User>
</Users>
asdfsof48f43uf489f3yf3y39fh3f489f3hf94[t]45.54tv,]5t
File contains xml values and then encrypted data from byte[] array.
The problem I've encountered is when i use:
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(fileName))
{
while (reader.Read())
{
//parsing
}
}
I got 'System.Xml.XmlException' at line where encrypted bytes begin.
My question is: how to retrieve only xml part and only byte[] part?

If in case the encrypted data is always the last line you can use below snippet to read only XML part of data given that the XML data is limited in size
var fileLines = File.ReadAllLines(#"c:\temp\file.txt");
var xmlFromFile = string.Join("", fileLines, 0, fileLines.Length - 1);
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmlFromFile)))
{
// Your logic goes here
}

you can do string parsing...
int start, end;
string myFile = File.ReadAllText("...");
start = myFile .IndexOf("<Users>");
end = myFile .IndexOf("</Users>") + 8;
myFile = myFile.Substring(start, end-start);
At that point you can load it into a xml document if you want. This all depends on you being 100% sure about the file format. This is a pretty fragile answer, so don't use it if you don't have a total trust in your input file.

Getting data from xml file and comparing it to a text file

So I have two files: a mot file and an xml file. What I need to do with these files is to read data from the xml file and compare it to the mot file if it exists. That's the general idea.
Before anything else, for those who are unfamiliar with what a mot
file is (I don't also have much knowledge about it, just the basics)...
(From Wikipedia) A mot file (or a Motorola S-Record
file) is a file format that conveys binary information in ASCII Hex text form.
(from another source) An S-record file consists of a
sequence of specially formatted ASCII character strings. An S-record
will be less than or equal to 78 bytes in length.
The format of a S-Record is:
S | Type | Record Length | Address (starting address) | Data | Checksum
(e.g. S21404200047524D5354524D0000801410AA5AA555F9)
([parsed] S2 14 042000 47524D5354524D0000801410AA5AA555 F9)
The specific idea is that I have data AA BB CC DD and so on allocated in addresses 0x042000 ~ 0x04200F. What’s written in the xml would be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<data-set xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<record>
<File name="Test.mot">
<Address id="042000">
<Data>AA</Data>
</Address>
</File>
</record>
<record>
<File name="Test.mot">
<Address id="042001">
<Data>BB CC DD</Data>
</Address>
</File>
</record>
<record>
<File name="Test.mot">
<Address id="042004">
<Data>EE FF</Data>
</Address>
</File>
</record>
Then the program would get the data and address from he XML and search the .mot file for any hits. So if a mot file has a record S214042000AABBCCDDEEFF01234567891A2B3C4D5EF9, then this is supposed to bring a match with what's in the xml. Result to true, or 1. If anything in the xml doesn't have a match, then it would return with false or 0.
The problem now would be I’m not well-versed with C# much less with XML although I did have a tiny bit of experience with both. I initially thought it would be something like this:
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("Test.mot"))
{
String line =String.Empty;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (line.Contains("042004") & line.Contains("EE FF"))
{
Console.WriteLine("Success");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Failure");
}
}
}
But obviously, it didn't result with what I expected. And Failure keeps popping up. Am I right to use StreamReader to read the .mot file? And with regards to the XML file, will XMLDocument work? How do I get data from the xml and compare it with the .mot file? Could someone walk me through how to get this done or provide guides how to properly start with this.
Let me know if I'm not clear on anything.
EDIT:
I thought of an idea. I'm not sure if it's doable, though. Let's say the program will read the mot S-Record file, and it will identify the type of the record. From there every record line listed in the file would be broken down as shown in the sample below:
sample record line: "S214042000AABBCCDDEEFF01234567891A2B3C4D5EF9"
S2 - type w/c means there would be a 3-byte address
14 - record length
F9 - checksum
042000 - AA
042001 - BB
042002 - CC
042003 - DD
...
04200F - 5E
With this new list, I think or I hope it would be easier for the program to use the data in the XML to locate it in the mot file.
Tell me if this will work, or if there are any alternatives.

Correct me when i'm wrong as it is full of assumptions:
the XML only gives the starting values of the data package under the mot file:
||||||||||||
S214042000AABBCCDDEEFF01234567891A2B3C4D5EF9
AABBCCDDEEFF
You could read out the xml and place each record in a record class
public class Record
{
string FileName{get;set;}
string Id {get;set;}
string Data {get;set;}
public Record(){} //default constructor
}
with the XmlDocument class you could read out the xml.
something like:
var document = new XmlDocument();
document.LoadXml("your.xml");
var records = document.SelectNodes("record");
var recordList = new List<Record>();
foreach(var r in records)
{
var file = r.SelectSingleNode("file");
var fileName = file.Attributes["name"].Value;
var address = file.SelectSingleNode("Address");
var id = address.Attributes["id"].Value;
var data = address.SelectSingleNode("Data").InnerText.Replace(" ", "");
recordList.Add(new Record{FileName = fileName, Id = id, Data = data});
}
Afterwards you can then readout everyline of the mot file by position:
since the location of the 042000 always be the 5 - 10 character
var fn = "Test.mot";
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fn))
{
var record = recordList.Single(r=> r.FileName);
String line =String.Empty;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (line.SubString(4,6) == record.Id && line.SubString(10, record.Data.Length) == record.Data)
{
Console.WriteLine("Success");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Failure");
}
}
}
Let me know if it helped you out a bit

RDLC Display a formatted Xml string

I need to format my xml string to display it in RDLC report, arranged by tags. Something like
<Root>
<Child>
<SubChild>...</SubChild>
</Child>
</Root>
I can't seem to find a way to do that, other than just iterating through the string horribly and trying to arrange it manually. Is there a way to do it with some format function in RDLC or in some other way and pass it to RDLC already formatted?

You can use this function to format your XML strings outside RDLC.
You need to use XMLWriterSettings.OmitXmlDeclaration to save an indented XML without declaration line (i.e.: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>)
Dim strXML As String = "<Root><Child><SubChild>test</SubChild></Child></Root>"
Dim xmlDoc As New System.Xml.XmlDocument
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strXML)
Dim xmlSettings As New System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings
xmlSettings.Indent = True
xmlSettings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True
Dim sb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
Using writer As System.Xml.XmlWriter = System.Xml.XmlWriter.Create(sb, xmlSettings)
xmlDoc.Save(writer)
End Using
MsgBox(sb.ToString())

text append to existing file

<namespace>
<root>
<node1>
<element 1>
<element 1>
</node1>
<node2>
<element 1>
<element 1>
</node2>
</root>
string stringContains = string.Empty;
foreach(string line in File.ReadLines(Path))
{
if(line.Contains("<Root>"))
{
stringContains = line.Replace("<Root>", "<Root>" + newelement.OuterXml);
}
}
File.AppendAllText(Path, stringContains);
I must replace root with other nodes,
so that i am appending text. However the above code appends existing text with stringContains

Try this.
string stringContains = string.Empty;
var lines = File.ReadLines(Path);
foreach (var line in lines)
{
if(line.Contains("<Root>"))
{
stringContains = line.Replace("<Root>", "<Root>" + newelement.OuterXml);
}
}
File.WriteAllLines(Path, lines);
but if your file size is huge then this is bad practise.

Note: You cannot change just one line in a file, you need to read all content, change desired part and write all content again.
According to your info about file size (GBs long) your only way to achive desired behaviour is to create new file and write content of you initial file changing only lines you need.
Procesing should be done line-by-line (as you showed in your sample) to achive minimum use of memory
However, this approach requieres 2X space on your HDD till operation is complete (assuming you will delete initial file after all is done)
Regarding details: this question provides complete sample of how to achive described approach

Using XDocument to write raw XML

I'm trying to create a spreadsheet in XML Spreadsheet 2003 format (so Excel can read it). I'm writing out the document using the XDocument class, and I need to get a newline in the body of one of the <Cell> tags. Excel, when it reads and writes, requires the files to have the literal string
embedded in the string to correctly show the newline in the spreadsheet. It also writes it out as such.
The problem is that XDocument is writing CR-LF (\r\n) when I have newlines in my data, and it automatically escapes ampersands for me when I try to do a .Replace() on the input string, so I end up with &#10; in my file, which Excel just happily writes out as a string literal.
Is there any way to make XDocument write out the literal
as part of the XML stream? I know I can do it by deriving from XmlTextWriter, or literally just writing out the file with a TextWriter, but I'd prefer not to if possible.

I wonder if it might be better to use XmlWriter directly, and WriteRaw?
A quick check shows that XmlDocument makes a slightly better job of it, but xml and whitespace gets tricky very quickly...

I battled with this problem for a couple of days and finally came up with this solution. I used XMLDocument.Save(Stream) method, then got the formatted XML string from the stream. Then I replaced the 
 occurrences with
and used the TextWriter to write the string to a file.
string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><?mso-application progid='Excel.Sheet'?><Workbook xmlns=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:x=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel\" xmlns:ss=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet\" xmlns:html=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">";
xml += "<Styles><Style ss:ID=\"s1\"><Alignment ss:Vertical=\"Center\" ss:WrapText=\"1\"/></Style></Styles>";
xml += "<Worksheet ss:Name=\"Default\"><Table><Column ss:Index=\"1\" ss:AutoFitWidth=\"0\" ss:Width=\"75\" /><Row><Cell ss:StyleID=\"s1\"><Data ss:Type=\"String\">Hello&#10;&#10;World</Data></Cell></Row></Table></Worksheet></Workbook>";
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml); //load the xml string
System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
doc.Save(stream); //save the xml as a formatted string
stream.Position = 0; //reset the stream position since it will be at the end from the Save method
System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(stream);
string formattedXML = reader.ReadToEnd(); //fetch the formatted XML into a string
formattedXML = formattedXML.Replace("&#10;", "
"); //Replace the unhelpful &#10;'s with the wanted endline entity
System.IO.TextWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\\Temp\test1.xls");
writer.Write(formattedXML); //write the XML to a file
writer.Close();