Question

I have this XML:

<Test>
    <element>toto</element>
    <element>tata</element>
</Test>

How I can get the nodes “element”?. I see on the web I can get them with:

var elements = from element in xmlDoc.Descendants("element")
               select element;

But “elements” is empty!

EDIT 1: I’m loading the XDocument with this exact XML:

<Test xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
    <element>toto</element>
    <element>tata</element>
</Test>

Answer 1

Ok well there’s your problem, your names have to be qualified with the appropriate XML namespace.

XNamespace ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
var elements = xmlDoc.Descendants(ns + "element");