Descendants Method
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XContainer.Descendants Method

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Returns a collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order.

Namespace:  System.Xml.Linq
Assembly:  System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)

'Declaration
Public Function Descendants As IEnumerable(Of XElement)

Return Value

Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of XElement)
An IEnumerable(Of T) of XElement containing the descendant elements of the XContainer.

Note that this method will not return itself in the resulting IEnumerable(Of T). See DescendantsAndSelf if you need to include the current XElement in the results.

This method uses deferred execution.

The following example creates an XML tree, and then uses this axis method to retrieve the descendants.


Dim output As New StringBuilder
' Attributes are not nodes, so will not be returned by DescendantNodes.
Dim xmlTree As XElement = _
    <Root Att1="AttributeContent">
        <Child>Some text
<GrandChild>element content</GrandChild>
        </Child>
    </Root>
Dim de = From el In xmlTree.Descendants _
         Select el

For Each el In de
    output.Append(el.Name)
    output.Append(Environment.NewLine)
Next

OutputTextBlock.Text = output.ToString()


Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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