How to get a value of XElement
without getting child elements?
An example:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<someNode>
someValue
<child>1</child>
<child>2</child>
</someNode>
If i use XElement.Value for <someNode>
I get "somevalue<child>1</child><child>2<child>"
string but I want to get only "somevalue" without "<child>1</child><child>2<child>"
substring.
You can do it slightly more simply than using Descendants
- the Nodes
method only returns the direct child nodes:
XElement element = XElement.Parse(
@"<someNode>somevalue<child>1</child><child>2</child></someNode>");
var firstTextValue = element.Nodes().OfType<XText>().First().Value;
Note that this will work even in the case where the child elements came before the text node, like this:
XElement element = XElement.Parse(
@"<someNode><child>1</child><child>2</child>some value</someNode>");
var firstTextValue = element.Nodes().OfType<XText>().First().Value;