How to Read XML file i.e. data and tags both from ASP.net Textbox control?

Hello Guys,

I am facing a problem, actlly i want to copy a xml file data n tags into asp.net Textbox control and then on asp.net button click i want to read that whole xml file i.e. data as well as angular tags from textbox. but textbox does not treat it as text, it treat it as html text. so tell how i can read xml data n tags from textbox.

For Ex.

XML data n tags are:

<? xml version......>

<abc>Text1</abc>

and so on.....

Now i want to paste the above code into textbox n then on button click read from Textbox as it is but it gives error on first line of xml tag i.e. on <? xml.... it does not treat it as text ....

wht i do plz help me as early a s u can...
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