LINQ to XML - accessing descendants with a prefix

Question

I have a sample xml file like this

Name
address
Zip         


        

Answer 1

You need to know what the namespace is. That will have been declared earlier, with something like:

xmlns:vs="http://some_url_here"

You can query using XNamespace:

XNamespace vs = "http://some_url_here";
var names = doc.Descendants(vs + "Name")
               .Select(x => (string) x)
               .ToList();

The + here is actually converting an XNamespace and a string to an XName.