Question

Example:

<Item name="item1">
    <mode = "ax, bx" />
</Item>
<Item name="item2">
    <mode = "bx, cx" />
</Item>
<Item name="item3">
    <mode = "cx, dx" />
</Item>

In the example above I would like to extract all the items with modes containing “cx”.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Your XML in the example is not well formed. Assuming you meant:

<Items>
  <Item name="item1">
    <mode>ax, bx</mode>
  </Item>
  <Item name="item2">
    <mode>bx, cx</mode>
  </Item>
  <Item name="item3">
    <mode>cx, dx</mode> 
  </Item>
</Items>

you can do:

var els=from el in XDocument.Parse(inxml).Descendants("Item")
where el.Element("mode").Value.Contains("bx")
select el;