Question

The code below works but I want to optimize the code using yield or by changing algorithm.

public IEnumerable<Book> GetAuthorWithBookName(string keyword)
{
    var bookAndAuthorList = new List<Book>();
    List<Author> AuthorNameList = getAuthorName(keyword);
    foreach (var author in AuthorNameList)
    {
        XmlNode booksNames = getBook(author);
        XDocument XDOCbooksNames = XDocument.Parse(booksNames.OuterXml);

        var bookNameList = (
            from x1 in XDOCbooksNames.Descendants("Books")
            select x1.Elements("book").Select(g => g.Attribute("name").Value))
            .ToList();
        foreach (var bookName in bookNameList)
        {
            bookAndAuthorList.Add(new Book()
            {
                authorName = author.authorName,
                bookName = bookName
            });
        }
    }
    return bookAndAuthorList;
}

public class Book
{
    public string authorName { get; set; }
    public string bookName { get; set; }
}

Answer 1

As a quick win, you can remove the .ToList() call. All you’re doing is enumerate items, so there’s no need to do that. Similarly, there’s no need to create bookAndAutherList.

Eventually I think you can strip it down to this:

public IEnumerable<Book> GetAuthorWithBookName(string keyword)
{
    return from author in getAuthorName(keyword)
           let book = getBook(author)
           from xmlBook in XDocument.Parse(book.OuterXml).Descendants("Books")
           select new Book
           {
               authorName = author.AuthorName,
               bookName = xmlBook.Attribute("name").Value
           };
}