Question

I’m working with XML that was designed by somebody who got paid by the level of nesting. The different xml files always looks something like this:

<Car>       <Color>        <Paint>           <AnotherUselessTag>                <SomeSemanticBs>                    <TheImportantData> 

With LINQ its easy to get what I want: ( not exactly, but you get the point )

from x in car.Descendants('x') from y in x.Descendants('y') from z in y.Descendants('z') select z.WhatIWant(); 

I’m asking if there is a better way to do this? Some way of navigating the DOM with Linq?

Answer 1

If you are sure that all you want are TheImporantData elements from a Car element and that TheImportantData isn’t used as a tag name else where then:-

from x in car.Descendants(‘TheImportantData’) select x.WhatIWant();

Will do.