Question

Getting this weird LINQ error.

title =
System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectEnumerableIterator`2[System.Xml.Linq.XElement,System.String

Here is the code I have:

if (Request.QueryString["Keywords"] != null){
        string keywords = Request.QueryString["Keywords"];
            string myAppID = "HIDDEN";
            var xml = XDocument.Load("http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByKeywords&SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0&SECURITY-APPNAME=" + myAppID + "&RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=XML&REST-PAYLOAD&keywords=" + keywords + "&paginationInput.entriesPerPage=5");
            XNamespace ns = "http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services";
            var titles = from item in xml.Root.Descendants(ns + "title")
                              select new{
                                  title = xml.Descendants(ns + "title").Select (x => x.Value),
                              };
        foreach (var item in titles){
                Label1.Text += item;
            } 
        }

Here what the XML looks like:

<findItemsByKeywordsResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services">
<searchReslut count="5">
<item>
    <title></title>
</item>
<item>
    <title></title>
</item>
<item>
    <title></title>
</item>

Trying to get it to output correctly.

Answer 1

Instead of

title = xml.Descendants(ns + "title").Select (x => x.Value)

change to

title = item.Value

EDIT as ChrisGessler suggests, but with my suggestion:

if (Request.QueryString["Keywords"] != null)
{
    string keywords = Request.QueryString["Keywords"];
    string myAppID = "HIDDEN";
    var xml = XDocument.Load(/* snip */);
    XNamespace ns = "http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services";
    var titles = xml.Root.Descendants(ns + "title").Select(x => x.Value);
    Label1.Text = String.Join(null, titles);
}