Quering XElements for children with children attributes.

Question

Here is the XML outline:

<Root> 
  <Thing att="11">    
    <Child lang="e">  
       <record></record>
       <record></record>
       <record></record>  
   </Child >
   <Child lang="f">  
       <record></record>  
       <record></record>                
       <record></record>
   </Child > 
 </Thing> 
</Root>

I have the following:

TextReader reader = new StreamReader(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
                 .GetManifestResourceStream(FileName));

   var data = XElement.Load(reader);
foreach (XElement single in Data.Elements())
 {
      // english records
      var EnglishSet = (from e in single.Elements("Child")
         where e.Attribute("lang").Equals("e")
        select e.Value).FirstOrDefault();
}

But I'm getting back nothing. I want to be able to for Each "Thing" select the "Child" where the attribute "lang" equals a value.

I have also tried this, which has not worked.

var FrenchSet = single.Elements("Child")
.Where(y => y.Attribute("lang").Equals("f"))
.Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();

Answer 1

You're checking whether the XAttribute object is equal to the string "e".
Since an XAttribute object is never equal to a string, it doesn't work.

You need to check the XAttribute object's Value, like this:

where y => y.Attribute("lang").Value == "e"

Answer 2

You are comparing the attribute object with the string "e", rather than the value of the attrbute object. You're also returning the value of the node rather than the node. Since the value is empty, you'll just get the empty string.

Try this instead:

var EnglishSet = (from e in single.Elements("Child")
                  where e.Attribute("lang").Value == "e"
                  select e).FirstOrDefault();

Answer 3

var EnglishSet = (from e in single.Elements("Child")
         where e.Attribute("lang").Value.Equals("e")
        select e).FirstOrDefault();

As Slaks stated you were checking that the attribute not it's value was "e". You also don't need select e.Value because the "Child" nodes don't have a value they have "record" children.