LINQ to XML: How to select the next element

Question

I have a plist file from an iPhone app. It looks like this below:

  
    barcodes
    

        

Answer 1

It's not entirely clear to me whether Adam's solution is what you want, but if not, you might want to look at the NextNode property:

Gets the next sibling node of this node.

For instance, this prints the array element:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("test.xml");
        foreach (var element in doc.Descendants("key")
                                   .Where(x => (string) x == "jobSteps"))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(element.NextNode);
        }
    }
}

Note that it's skipping the whitespace between elements - but if there were any text between that and the array, it wouldn't work - so you'd want:

Console.WriteLine(element.NodesAfterSelf().OfType().First());