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How can we query XCData under a particular XElment Node?

Answer 1

+3 A:

The OPTIONB node is equivalent to:

<OPTIONB>
    <![CDATA[
cccccccccccccccccccc                    

   dddddddddddddd]]>
</OPTIONB>

So to get the value inside the CData section you could use the following:

var cdata = XElement.Load("test.xml").Element("OPTIONB").Value;

You will not be able to get the CData values separately because they have the same semantics as if it was a single CData section for a XML parser.

Darin Dimitrov 2009-11-09 17:00:19

provided solution does not work in common - if element contains text or other nodes your code will return _wrong_ result

Sergey Mirvoda 2010-01-28 06:05:15

This answer will work for most cases. Just to clarify for Mirvoda edge case, calling `.Value` on anything is the equivalent of concatenating the `.Value` strings of every sub-element together (text and CDATA are technically sub-elements) in the order they appear.`new XElement("test", "some non-cdata text", new XElement("a", "avalue"), new XCData("some cdata`{line break}`is in here"), new XElement("b", "bvalue", new XElement("subb", "subbvalue")), "some more non-cdata text").Value`...becomes...`some non-cdata textavaluesome cdata`{line break}`is in herebvaluesome more non-cdata text`

patridge 2010-02-11 21:55:52

Answer 2

+1 A:

XElement.Load("test.xml")
 .Element("OPTIONB")
   .Nodes()
     .Where(x=>x is XCData).First().Cast<XCData>().Value

Sergey Mirvoda 2010-01-26 09:03:08

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