XContainer.Descendants Method
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Returns a collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order.
Assembly: System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)
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()