I would expect that XmlReader with while(reader. Read)() {} would be the fastest managed approach. It certainly shouldn't take seconds to read 40KB... what is the input approach you are using?
Create an XmlReader object by passing in an XmlReaderSettings object that has the ConformanceLevel.Document.
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