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how to get text representation from XDocument?

XmlDocument class has a property "Text" whicn allows you to get text representation of XML (that is only the text part collected within all the nodes), how do I get it from XDocument?

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Have you tried:

string text = doc.Root.Value;

?

Jon Skeet  2010-08-06 11:01:03
thanks, let me try that, looks like it is what am looking for, I thought value represents only current text value of element, not its decendents, but I saw msdn it is what I am looking for.
Akash Kava  2010-08-06 11:06:25

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