Sorting all the elements in a XDocument

Question

I have a XDocument where I\'d like to sort all of the elements alphabetically. Here\'s a simplified version of the structure:

Answer 1

Here is an updated example that will include all attributes when performing the sort.

private static XElement Sort(XElement element)
{
    XElement newElement = new XElement(element.Name,
        from child in element.Elements()
        orderby child.Name.ToString()
        select Sort(child));
    if (element.HasAttributes)
    {
        foreach (XAttribute attrib in element.Attributes())
        {
            newElement.SetAttributeValue(attrib.Name, attrib.Value);
        }
    }
    return newElement;
}

private static XDocument Sort(XDocument file)
{
    return new XDocument(Sort(file.Root));
}

This post helped me a lot, because I did not want to perform an XML sort using XSLT since I did not want to reformat the XML. I searched all around for a simple solution to perform an XML sort using C# and ASP.NET and I was delighted when I found this thread. Thanks to all, this did exactly what I needed.