If there is more data in the stream, the method will block parsing until receipt of the fourth byte.

However, I'm trying to use the Xml Reader object to read each Account and subsequently the "Statements Available". So theres an Account Base class that accepts a Xml Reader instance that reads the Name Of Kin and several other properties about the account.

true if the reader is positioned on an attribute (the reader moves to the element that owns the attribute); false if the reader is not positioned on an attribute (the position of the reader does not change). NET Framework Available since 1.1 Portable Class Library Supported in: portable .

method sets the state of the XML reader to initiate Initial and moves through the XML file sequentially until it reaches the end of the file, at which point the method returns a value of false.

Here's some sample code (adapted slightly from this blog post): I've used this to convert the Stack Overflow user data (which is enormous) into another format before - it works very well.

EDIT from radarbob, reformatted by Jon - although it's not quite clear which "read too far" problem is being referred to...