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In the following code, I serialize an object into an XML string . But when I try to read this XML string into an XDocument with XDocument.Parse, it gives me this error : Invalid data at root level. The XML is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Customer xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <Id>1</Id> <FirstName>Jim</FirstName> <LastName>Jones</LastName> <ZipCode>23434</ZipCode> </Customer> UPDATE: Here is the hex: ![alt text][1] Mod edit - disabled hyperlink: links to malware What do I have to do to this XML so that it reads into the XDocument without an error? using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Xml.Serialization; using System.IO; using System.Xml; using System.Text; using System.Xml.Linq; namespace TestSerialize2342 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { List<Customer> customers = Customer.GetCustomers(); Console.WriteLine("--- Serializing ------------------"); foreach (var customer in customers) { Console.WriteLine("Serializing " + customer.GetFullName() + "..."); string xml = XmlHelpers.SerializeObject<Customer>(customer); XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xml); } Console.ReadLine(); } } public static class StringHelpers { public static String UTF8ByteArrayToString(Byte[] characters) { UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding(); String constructedString = encoding.GetString(characters); return (constructedString

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