Question

I have the following code

const string xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>
                            <Revisions>
                                <Revision Key=""MIDTERM"">5850</Revision>
                                <Revision Key=""LONGTERM"">5850</Revision>
                            </Revisions>";
        var key = "MIDTERM";
        var _RevisionsXml = XDocument.Parse(xml, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace);
        var revisionNode = _RevisionsXml
                                .Root
                                .Elements("Revision")
                                .FirstOrDefault(elem => elem.Attribute("Key").ToString() == key);

The revisionNode is always null, not sure what is that I am missing.

Answer 1

You want to use .Value instead of .ToString() when comparing your key.

Invoking ToString() on the attribute will return Key="MIDTERM", which is mostly used for debugging purpose.

Be sure that your XML is well formed or you could face a NullReferenceException when calling .Value if there is no attribute named Key.