Question

Could anyone please show me how to read the extrinsic node below by using Linq to XML, please;

<Root>
<ItemDetail>
      <UnitPrice>
        <Money currency="NZ">32</Money>
      </UnitPrice>
      <Description xml:lang="en">abc description</Description>
      <UnitOfMeasure>CU</UnitOfMeasure>
      <Classification domain="N/A"/>
      <ManufacturerPartID>12345678</ManufacturerPartID>
      <Extrinsic name="StockCode">23333</Extrinsic>
      <Extrinsic name="Quantity">1</Extrinsic>
 </ItemDetail>
<ItemDetail>
      <UnitPrice>
        <Money currency="NZ">32</Money>
      </UnitPrice>
      <Description xml:lang="en">abc description</Description>
      <UnitOfMeasure>CU</UnitOfMeasure>
      <Classification domain="N/A"/>
      <ManufacturerPartID>12345678</ManufacturerPartID>
      <Extrinsic name="StockCode">23333</Extrinsic>
      <Extrinsic name="Quantity">1</Extrinsic>
 </ItemDetail>
<ItemDetail>
      <UnitPrice>
        <Money currency="NZ">32</Money>
      </UnitPrice>
      <Description xml:lang="en">abc description</Description>
      <UnitOfMeasure>CU</UnitOfMeasure>
      <Classification domain="N/A"/>
      <ManufacturerPartID>12345678</ManufacturerPartID>
      <Extrinsic name="StockCode">23333</Extrinsic>
      <Extrinsic name="Quantity">1</Extrinsic>
 </ItemDetail>
</Root>

Answer 1

What exactly do you want to achieve? Each ItemDetail element seems to have two Extrinsic child elements. Do you want to access both?

var data = from item in XElement.Load("file.xml").Elements("ItemDetail")
           select new {
              stockcode = (int)item.Elements("Extrinsic").First(e => e.Attribute("name").Value == "StockCode"),
              quantity = (int)item.Elements("Extrinsic").First(e => e.Attribute("name").Value == "Quantity")
           };

I am not sure stock code is an integer but of course you could take the string value instead (i.e. (string) instead of (int)).