How to get a stream from XMLWriter?

Question

A System.Xml.XmlWriter instance is written to the underlying streaming right (regardless of the specific implementation of XmlWriter)

So, how are there no methods available to the programmer to extract the Stream object from XmlWriter?

I am sure that I am missing something simple. Thanks in advance.

PS: In case someone asks what I really want to do, get the stream from the XmlWriter instance passed to me and create an XmlReader from it (first clean up Writer if necessary).

Then I need to use the XmlReader as a parameter for the XslCompiledTransform.Transform method

Edit: punctuation

Answer 1

You must not do this . Despite the fact that you know that XmlWriter has a Stream under it, but this is an implementation detail, and XmlWriter should not give it to you. Also, a stream can only read or write, how will you read from it?

You must pass the original stream that was used to create the XmlWriter instance in the place where you want to read the stream, if you know that the stream can be either written or read. Otherwise, you must create a new stream that will read the content written by XmlWriter .