Question

I appreciate that there are now many mechanisms in dotnet to deal with XML in a myriad of ways…

Suppose I have a string containing the XML….

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?> <root>     <Element1>         <Element1_1>             SomeData         </Element1_1>     </Element1>     <Element2>         Some More Data     </Element2> </root> 

What is the simplest (most readable) way of removing Element1_1?

Update… I can use any .Net API available in .Net 3.5 😀

Answer 1

Which APIs are you able to use? Can you use .NET 3.5 and LINQ to XML, for instance? If so, XNode.Remove is your friend – just select Element1_1 (in any of the many ways which are easy with LINQ to XML) and call Remove() on it.

Examples of how to select the element:

XElement element = doc.XPathSelectElement('/root/Element1/Element1_1'); element.Remove(); 

Or:

XElement element = doc.Descendants('Element1_1').Single().Remove();