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Is there a way to determine if an XElement contains one of any specified elements? For example, I have XElements that I'll want to check: Dim xe1 = <color><blue/></color> Dim xe2 = <color><red/></color> Dim xe3 = <color><powderBlue/></color> Dim xe4 = <color><aqua/></color> Dim xe5 = <color><green/></color> I'd like to be able to query any of the xelements to see if they containt the elements <red/> , <green/> or <blue/> below them and return true if so, false if not. I was hoping that it would be simplier, but the best I could come up with was: Dim primaryColor = From e In xe1.Elements Where

I have some XML that I deserialize into a business object. I am using XmlSerializer.Deserialize to do so. However, I want one of the XmlElement contained in the XML to stay an XElement. It cannot be done directly (using an XmlElementAttribute) since XElement is not Serializable. I also tried to serialize that element to a string (in a two steps attempt to get an XElement), but that failed with the error: unexpected node type element. readelementstring method can only be called on elements with simple or empty content Any idea how that can be done? Here is an example of xml and the resulting

Is it possible to return an XElement from a webservice (in C#/asp.net)? Try a simple web service that returns an XElement: [WebMethod] public XElement DoItXElement() { XElement xe = new XElement("hello", new XElement("message", "Hello World") ); return xe; } This compiles fine but if you try and run it you get Cannot use wildcards at the top level of a schema. I found this post implying that this is a bug in .net. So... Can I return an XElement from a web service? If so, how? Thanks. There appears to be an issue with how an XElement is serialized, check here ... You can try outing the XElement

This question already has answers here : Best way to get InnerXml of an XElement? (15 answers) Closed 5 years ago . I'm having a hard time getting the correct value from the innertext of an XElement. First, here's the XML that I'm using. This is a copy of our production data that results from a process in our workflow. In other words, I can't change the XML, I can only parse it. The element whose innertext I'd like to get has data inside that looks like XML, but it isn't. It is straight text from the tool that produced the XML. The element is called <creatorshapeutildata : Here is the line of

I have a class that has the following properties: public class Author { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } Next, I have a List of Authors like so: List<Author> authors = new List<Author> (); authors.add( new Author { FirstName = "Steven", LastName = "King" }); authors.add( new Author { FirstName = "Homer", LastName = "" }); Now, I am trying to use Linq to XML in order to generate the XML representing my Authors List. new XElement("Authors", new XElement("Author", from na in this.Authors select new XElement("First", na.First))) The block above does not