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This functionality is called functional construction, which will be discussed in Chapter 6,
??????Programming with LINQ to XML.??™??™
Traversing XML
So, you have your XML document in memory, whether you created it manually or loaded it using the
Load method of the XElement class. Now what do you do with it? Specifically, how do you navigate
the XML tree to get to the node/element you want to work with?
Traversing XML in an XML tree in LINQ to XML is quite simple. Just use the methods of the XElement
and XAttribute classes as necessary. Basically, the Elements and Element methods provide all of the
element children of an XContainer (an XElement or XDocument) object. Using the XName object, such as
Element(XName), you can return the elements of that specific XName.
Once you have your XML tree loaded as shown here:
employees = XElement.Load(@"C:\Wrox\Employees.xml");
you can start ??????walking the XML tree.??™??™ Here are a couple of examples:
employees.Element("Employees").Element("Employee")
employees.Element("Employees").Element("Employee").


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