XElement value in C#

Question

How to get a value of XElement without getting child elements?

An example:

    someValue
            


        

Answer 1

I think what you want would be the first descendant node, so something like:

var value = XElement.Descendents.First().Value;

Where XElement is the element representing your element.

You can specifically ask for the first text element (which is "somevalue"), so you could also do:

var value = XElement.Descendents.OfType().First().Value;