Question

I have a CRM FetchXML string. This has a linked entity which means the XML Elements are prefixed with a GUID, such as:

 <a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.lastname>Bob</a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.lastname>
 <a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.firstname>Bob</a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.firstname> 
 <a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.title name="Mr" formattedvalue="1">1</a_6dd7d25cb0be4150bbaec7c0d2f430c7.title> 

I would like to use it in a way similar to this:

List<FetchResult> results =
            (from result in xmlDoc.Descendants("result")
             select new FetchResult
             {
                 FirstName = result.Element("firstname").Value
             }).ToList<FetchResult>();

Obviously this won’t work, so is there anyway I can do a Element.Contains("lastname") or similar?
If not, is there way I can parse this out of my string before hand? Perhaps regex?

Thanks

Answer 1

List<FetchResult> results =
            (from result in xmlDoc.Descendants("result")
             select new FetchResult
             {
                 FirstName = result.Elements().First(el => el.EndsWith("firstname")).Value
             }).ToList<FetchResult>();

Should work