Question

I would like to query an XDocument object for a given path, (e.g. “/path/to/element/I/want”) but I don’t know how to proceed.

Answer 1

Something similar to this might work:

var path = "/path/to/element/I/want";
var route = path.Split(new []{'/'}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

XElement result = null;
foreach (var node in route)
{
    if (result == null)
    {
        result = _xmlDocument.Element(node);    
    }
    else
    {
        result = result.Element(node);
    }
}

return result;