Question

I want to get all text nodes from an XML file.

How can I do this?

Example Input:

<root>
<slide>
<Image>hi</Image>
<ImageContent>this</ImageContent>
<Thumbnail>is</Thumbnail>
<ThumbnailContent>A</ThumbnailContent>
</slide>
</root> 

Expected Output:

hi this is A

Answer 1

You can try this:

        string input = @"
            <root>
                <slide>
                    <Image>hi</Image>
                    <ImageContent>this</ImageContent>
                    <Thumbnail>is</Thumbnail>
                    <ThumbnailContent>A</ThumbnailContent>
                </slide>
            </root>";

        XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(input);
        //You can also load data from file by passing file path to Load method
        //XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("Data.xml");
        foreach(var slide in doc.Root.Elements("slide"))
        {
            var words = slide.Elements().Select(el => el.Value);
            string s = String.Join(" ", words.ToArray());
        }