Question

This is my xml.

<Document>
<page no="1">
  <Paragraph no="1">
    <Line>line1</Line>
  </Paragraph>
  <Paragraph no="2">
    <Line>line2</Line>
  </Paragraph>
</page>
<page no="2">
  <Paragraph no="1">
    <Line>line1</Line>
  </Paragraph>
  <Paragraph no="2">
    <Line>line2</Line>
  </Paragraph>
</page>
</Document>

My C# code is

XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
            xd.Load(@"H:\Sample-8-final.xml");
            XmlNodeList pnodelist = xd.GetElementsByTagName("page");
            XmlNodeList xdChildNodeList = xd.ChildNodes;

            for (int i = 0; i < pnodelist.Count; i++)
            {
                XmlNode pageNode = pnodelist[i];
                foreach (XmlNode xxNode in pageNode.ChildNodes)
                {
                    if (xxNode.Name.ToString().Trim().Equals("Paragraph"))
                    {
                        foreach (XmlNode yyNode in xxNode.ChildNodes)
                        {
                            yyNode.ParentNode.RemoveChild(yyNode);
                        }
                    }
                }
                xd.Save(@"H:\Sample-8-final_1.xml");

my Required output is

<Document>
<page no="1">
  <Paragraph no="1">
  </Paragraph>
  <Paragraph no="2">
  </Paragraph>
</page>
<page no="2">
  <Paragraph no="1">
  </Paragraph>
  <Paragraph no="2">
  </Paragraph>
</page>
</Document>

but my code produced wrong result like below:

<Document>
    <page no="1">
      <Paragraph no="1">
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph no="2">
        <Line>line2</Line>
      </Paragraph>
    </page>
    <page no="2">
      <Paragraph no="1">
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph no="2">
        <Line>line2</Line>
      </Paragraph>
    </page>
    </Document>

Please Guide me to get out of this issue…

Answer 1

Use LINQ to XML to remove all descendants of the Paragraph elements:

XElement root = XElement.Load(@"H:\Sample-8-final_1.xml");
root.Descendants("Paragraph").Descendants().Remove();

Note: you need to put using System.Xml.Linq; at the top of your file.