Descendants (XElement Dynamic Property)
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Gets an indexer used to retrieve all the descendant elements of the current element that match the specified expanded name.
Syntax
elem.Descendants[{namespaceName}localName]
Property Value/Return Value
An indexer of the type IEnumerable<XElement> Item(String expandedName). This indexer takes the expanded name of the specified descendant elements and returns the matching child elements in an IEnumerable<XElement> collection.
Remarks
This property is equivalent to the System.Xml.Linq.XContainer.Descendants(XName) method of the XContainer class.
The elements in the returned collection are in XML source document order.
This property uses deferred execution.