LoadXml
using System; using System.IO; using System.Xml; public class BookListing { public static void Main() { XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); String entry = "<book genre='biography'" + " ISBN='1111111111'><title>my title</title>" + "</book>"; doc.LoadXml(entry); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); doc.Save(writer); // to StringWriter String strXML = writer.ToString(); // to String Console.WriteLine(strXML); } }