Question

How to count number of xml descendants for each xml element, i.e:

<Person >
    <Name >Paxton</Name>
    <City >Munich</City>
    <Age >29</Age>
 </Person>
 <Person >
    <Name >Mike</Name>
    <City >Orlando</City>
     <Age >33</Age>

I mean first Person has 7 nodes below itself, Name has 5 noes etc..
I tried using

  element.Descendants().Count() 

but this returns only childs unfortunately.

Answer 1

I believe you need element.Elements().Count(). If element is a Person node, it will return number of person’s elements. I.e. 3 for your sample xml (Name, Age, City). XElement.Elements() will return only direct descendants of element. XElement.Descendants() will return all children on any level.