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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:00:20+00:00

I’ve got the following XML passed as an IQueryable to a method, i.e. XML:

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I’ve got the following XML passed as an IQueryable to a method, i.e.

XML:

<body>
  <p>Some Text</p>
  <p>Some Text</p>
  <pullquote>This is pullquote</pullquote>
  <p>Some Text</p>
  <p>Some Text</p>
 <body>

Method:

public static string CreateSection(IQueryable<XElement> section)
{
     var bodySection = from b in articleSection.Descendants("body")
                       select b;

     //Do replacement here.

     var bodyElements = bodySection.Descendants();

     StringBuilder paragraphBuilder = new StringBuilder();
     foreach (XElement paragraph in bodyElements)
     {
         paragraphBuilder.Append(paragraph.ToString());
     }

     return paragraphBuilder.ToString();
}

What I want to accomplish is to replace the <pullquote> with a <p> (and maybe add attributes).

My problem is not the actual replacement (XElement.ReplaceWith()) but the fact that after the replacement the changes does not reflect the bodySection variable that gets used by the StringBuilder.

How would I go about getting this to work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You haven’t really shown enough code – in particular, you haven’t shown the replacement code you’re trying to use.

    However, I suspect the main problem is that bodySection is a query. Every time you use it, it will query section again – and if that’s pulling information from the database, then so be it. You may find that this is all that’s required to make it do what you want:

    var bodySection = articleSection.Descendants("body").ToList();

    That way you’ve then got the body sections in memory, and any time you use bodySection you’ll be using the same collection of objects, rather than querying again.

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