Question

So I have a simple XML Doc like this:

<Xml>
    <Node1></Node1>
    <Node2></Node2>
    ...
    <Node10></Node10>
        <Node10Stuff1></Node10Stuff1>
        <Node10Stuff2></Node10Stuff2>
    <Node11></Node11>
</Xml>

Since I’m getting the XML Using a post, I’m assigning it my XDocument like so:

XDocument xd;    
using(StringReader s = new StringReader(postXml))
{
     xd = XDocument.Load(s);
}

And here is my LINQ query:

var q = from c in xd.Root.Elements("Xml")
        select c;

foreach(var a in q)
{
     String node1= a.Element("Node1").ToString();
     ...etc...
}

But my foreach loop is always empty. Shouldnt my query be returning all of the nodes? At least the children of <Xml>?

Answer 1

xd.Root is already the <Xml> element – you’re currently looking for <Xml> elements below that, which is why you’re not finding anything.

It looks like you don’t even need the foreach loop, just:

var root = xd.Root;

String node1 = (string) root.Element("Node1");
// etc