Load XDocument asynchronously

Late answer, but I needed the async read as well on a "legacy" .NET Framework version so I figured out a way to truly read the content in an async way without reverting to buffering the XML data in memory.

Since the writer provided by XDocument.CreateWriter() does not support async writing and thus XmlWriter.WriteNodeAsync() fails, the code performs async reads and converts this to sync writes on the XDocument-writer. The code is inspired by the way XmlWriter.WriteNodeAsync() works however. Since the writer builds an in-memory DOM this is actually even better than actually doing async writes.

public static async Task<XDocument> LoadAsync(Stream stream, LoadOptions loadOptions) {
    using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream, new XmlReaderSettings() {
            DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore,
            IgnoreWhitespace = (loadOptions&LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace) == LoadOptions.None,
            XmlResolver = null,
            CloseInput = false,
            Async = true
    })) {
        var result = new XDocument();
        using (var writer = result.CreateWriter()) {
            do {
                switch (reader.NodeType) {
                case XmlNodeType.Element:
                    writer.WriteStartElement(reader.Prefix, reader.LocalName, reader.NamespaceURI);
                    writer.WriteAttributes(reader, true);
                    if (reader.IsEmptyElement) {
                        writer.WriteEndElement();
                    }
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.Text:
                    writer.WriteString(await reader.GetValueAsync().ConfigureAwait(false));
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.CDATA:
                    writer.WriteCData(reader.Value);
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.EntityReference:
                    writer.WriteEntityRef(reader.Name);
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.ProcessingInstruction:
                case XmlNodeType.XmlDeclaration:
                    writer.WriteProcessingInstruction(reader.Name, reader.Value);
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.Comment:
                    writer.WriteComment(reader.Value);
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.DocumentType:
                    writer.WriteDocType(reader.Name, reader.GetAttribute("PUBLIC"), reader.GetAttribute("SYSTEM"), reader.Value);
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.Whitespace:
                case XmlNodeType.SignificantWhitespace:
                    writer.WriteWhitespace(await reader.GetValueAsync().ConfigureAwait(false));
                    break;
                case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
                    writer.WriteFullEndElement();
                    break;
                }
            } while (await reader.ReadAsync().ConfigureAwait(false));
        }
        return result;
    }
}

XDocument.LoadAsync() is available in .NET Core 2.0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.xml.linq.xdocument.loadasync?view=netcore-2.0