parsing XML content - C#

Question

I have not used XML for very long and need to extract the useful information from an XML response. If there are 2 tags that are the same but have a different name e.g

Answer 1

You can use LINQ To XML:

var result = XDocument.Parse(xml)
                .Descendants("lst")
                .Where(e => (string) e.Attribute("name") == "overflow")
                .Descendants("str")
                .Select(x => x.Value)
                .FirstOrDefault();