How to get elements by name in XML using LINQ

Question

I\'ve chosen the title here as my problem is I need to get the Item nodes mentioned in the example. I have the following XML and am having problems using LINQ to query it, I

Answer 1

Assuming element is your element:

var ids = element.Element("items")
                 .Elements("item")
                 .Select(item => item.Element("id").Value);

The Element and Elements methods return only direct children, not all descendants, so it doesn't return the element which is under