XContainer.RemoveNodes Method

If you call this method on an element that contains attributes, this method will not remove the attributes. To remove the attributes of an element, use RemoveAttributes.

The Remove method has related functionality. It removes the child nodes of every node in a collection.

This method will raise the Changed and the Changing events.

The following example creates an XML tree that contains some child nodes. It then calls this method to remove the child nodes.

XElement xmlTree = new XElement("Root",
    new XElement("Child1", 1),
    new XElement("Child2", 2),
    new XComment("a comment"),
    new XElement("Child3", 3),
    new XElement("Child4", 4),
    new XText("mixed content"),
    new XElement("Child5", 5)
);
xmlTree.RemoveNodes();
Console.WriteLine(xmlTree);

This example produces the following output:

<Root />

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Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

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