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Working with Existing XML
Loading XML into a LINQ to XML tree is straightforward. You can load XML from a number of sources,
such as a string, XmlReader, TextReader, or file.
The following example illustrates how to load from a file:
XElement employees = null;
employees = XElement.Load(@"C:\Wrox\Employees.xml");
In this example, a variable called employees is declared as an XElement object (an instance of the
XElement class). The Load method of the XElement class is then used to load the raw XML from the
Employees.xml file into an XML tree and store the XML contents in the employees variable.
XML can also be loaded from a string, using the Parse method:
XElement employees = XElement.Parse(@"

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Part II: LINQ to XML

Steve Kent

Gaming
04/17/92
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Scott Klein

All things technical
02/05/94
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Joe Walling

All things bleeding edge
06/15/93
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");
Parse has an optional Boolean overload that enables you to preserve whitespace.


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