XElement.Load(TextReader, LoadOptions) loads an XElement from a TextReader

  

Imports System
Imports System.IO

Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Xml.XPath

Public Class MainClass

    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim sr As TextReader
        Dim whiteSpaceNodes As Integer
        
        sr = New StringReader("<Root> <Child> </Child> </Root>")
        Dim xmlTree1 As XElement = XElement.Load(sr, LoadOptions.None)
        sr.Close()
        whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree1 _
            .DescendantNodesAndSelf() _
            .OfType(Of XText)() _
            .Where(Function(ByVal tNode As XNode) tNode.ToString().Trim().Length = 0) _
            .Count()
        Console.WriteLine(whiteSpaceNodes)
        
        sr = New StringReader("<Root> <Child> </Child> </Root>")
        Dim xmlTree2 As XElement = XElement.Load(sr, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace)
        sr.Close()
        whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree2 _
            .DescendantNodesAndSelf() _
            .OfType(Of XText)() _
            .Where(Function(ByVal tNode As XNode) tNode.ToString().Trim().Length = 0) _
            .Count()
        Console.WriteLine(whiteSpaceNodes)
        
    End Sub
End Class

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