Different ways of reading an XML file

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using System.Xml; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; Response.Write("<b>Using XmlTextReader</b><br /><br />"); using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("Country.xml"))) {  while (reader.Read())  {   if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text)   {    Response.Write(reader.Value + "<br />");   }  } } Response.Write("<br /><b>Using XmlReader</b><br /><br />"); using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(Server.MapPath("Country.xml"))) {  while (reader.Read())  {   if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text)   {    Response.Write(reader.Value + "<br />");   }  } } Response.Write("<br /><b>Using XmlNodeReader</b><br /><br />"); XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(Server.MapPath("Country.xml")); XmlNodeReader nodeReader = new XmlNodeReader(xmlDoc); while (nodeReader.Read()) {  if (nodeReader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text)  {   Response.Write(nodeReader.Value + "<br />");  } } xmlDoc = null; nodeReader = null; Response.Write("<br /><b>Using XDocument</b><br /><br />"); XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(Server.MapPath("Country.xml")); var xmlAtt = from att in xDoc.Elements("CountryList").Elements("Name")     select att; foreach (var record in xmlAtt) {  Response.Write(record.Value + "<br />"); } xDoc = null; xmlAtt = null;