Vista - Does the XMLDocument.Load(System.IO.Stream) method load the whole

The description of the XMLDocument.Load method doesn't quite answer the
question. When passing in a FileStream object to the Load method, does it
load the entire document into memory? For example, if I have a 1 gigabyte
file, would the Load method attempt read the entire 1 gigabyte file into
memory when using a FileStream object?

Shawn Sesna wrote:Yes. The kind of stream doesn't matter, actually, it will pull data from the
stream until it's read a complete document.
It wouldn't actually read all of the file into memory, it would read it
piecewise and construct an in-memory representation of the XML document it
represents while it's doing so. This will end up quite a bit larger than 1
GB, actually. This is why XmlDocument is unsuitable for very large streams.
XmlReader and XPathNavigator are light-weight alternatives.

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J.