Read the content of an xml file within a zip package

I am required to read the contents of an .xml file using the Stream (Here the xml file is existing with in the zip package). Here in the below code, I need to get the file path at runtime (here I have hardcoded the path for reference). Please let me know how to read the file path at run time.

I have tried to use string s =entry.FullName.ToString(); but get the error "Could not find the Path". I have also tried to hard code the path as shown below. however get the same FileNotFound error. 

string metaDataContents;
using (var zipStream = new FileStream(@"C:\OB10LinuxShare\TEST1\Temp" + "\\"+zipFileName+".zip", FileMode.Open))
using (var archive = new ZipArchive(zipStream, ZipArchiveMode.Read))
{
    foreach (var entry in archive.Entries)
    {
        if (entry.Name.EndsWith(".xml"))
        {
            FileInfo metadataFileInfo = new FileInfo(entry.Name);
            string metadataFileName = metadataFileInfo.Name.Replace(metadataFileInfo.Extension, String.Empty);
            if (String.Compare(zipFileName, metadataFileName, true) == 0)
            {
                using (var stream = entry.Open())
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
                {
                    metaDataContents = reader.ReadToEnd();
                    clientProcessLogWriter.WriteToLog(LogWriter.LogLevel.DEBUG, "metaDataContents : " + metaDataContents);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I have also tried to get the contents of the .xml file using the Stream object as shown below. But here I get the error "Stream was not readable".

Stream metaDataStream = null;
string metaDataContent = string.Empty;
using (Stream stream = entry.Open())
{                                
    metaDataStream = stream;
}
using (var reader = new StreamReader(metaDataStream))
{
    metaDataContent = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

Kindly suggest, how to read the contents of the xml with in a zip file using Stream and StreamReader by specifying the file path at run time

Jon Skeet
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Your section code snippet is failing because when you reach the end of the first using statement:

using (Stream stream = entry.Open())
{                                
    metaDataStream = stream;
}

... the stream will be disposed. That's the point of a using statment. You should be fine with this sort of code, but load the XML file while the stream is open:

XDocument doc;
using (Stream stream = entry.Open())
{                                
    doc = XDocument.Load(stream);
}

That's to load it as XML... if you really just want the text, you could use:

string text;
using (Stream stream = entry.Open())
{                                
    using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)
    {
        text = reader.ReadToEnd();
    }
}

Again, not how this is reading before it hits the end of either using statement.

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