Question

I have this xml:

    <root>      
      <sub>maintext1
        <subsub>subtext1</subsub>
        <subsub>subtext2</subsub>
      </sub>          
    </root>

I initially tried < sub>.Value, but this returned everything inside the sub, then < sub>.ToString which does the same thing. I searched for a solution but everywhere was used the xmlElement.InnerText but I need it for xElement which isn’t available. How can I use the inner text property for the xElement?

Answer 1

You can get all the nodes of an XElement of a specific type by using the OfType Linq extension on the return value of the Nodes method.

XElement.Nodes().OfType<XText>()

This example gets the value you’re looking for, I think:

var xml = 
    @"<root>      
       <sub>maintext1
        <subsub>subtext1</subsub>
        <subsub>subtext2</subsub>
       </sub>          
      </root>";
var xel = XElement.Parse(xml);
var textNodes = xel.Element("sub").Nodes().OfType<XText>();
var mainText1 = textNodes.First().Value;