deleting specific node in xml

Question

I need to delete specific employee node and also its child node based on the value of id. For example, here I need to delete employee tag with id=\"2\".

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Answer 1

Assuming you have loaded that into an XmlDocument named doc:

XmlElement el = (XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("/company/employee[id=2]");
if(el != null) { el.ParentNode.RemoveChild(el); }