How read a specific XmlNode without knowing its name

Question

couldn't find a specific answer to that

Here is an Xml example for my problem

<Rectangle>
    <elementcolor>blue</elementcolor>
    <elementwidth>200</elementwidth>
</Rectangle>
<Line>
    <elementcolor>red</elementcolor>
    <elementwidth>150</elementwidth>
</Line>

I want to get all the elements that have ChildNodes, and i don't want to get those who have simple text

I want to put into a list, in this example, Rectangle and Line.

But when asking .HasChildNodes to those nodes which contains simple text they return me True and as ChildNode[0].Name they return me "#text".

I can't simply asking .HasChildNodes, and i couldn't find other way to specify which node has a Node as ChildNode and which one has a "#text"

So i tried using XmlReader, this way:

XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(file);
while (reader.Read())
{
    if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
    {
        list.Add(reader.Name);   
    }
}

This is returning me all Xml nodes, but i just want those who have a Node as ChildNode, how can i do that?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can use linq2xml for that...

var xml = @"<wrapper>
<Rectangle>
    <elementcolor>blue</elementcolor>
    <elementwidth>200</elementwidth>
</Rectangle>
<Rectangle/>
<Line/>
<Line>
    <elementcolor>red</elementcolor>
    <elementwidth>150</elementwidth>
</Line>
</wrapper>";

var elements = XElement
    .Parse(xml)
    .Descendants()
    .Where(o => o.HasElements);
elements.Dump();

OUTPUT

<Rectangle>
  <elementcolor>blue</elementcolor>
  <elementwidth>200</elementwidth>
</Rectangle> 
<Line>
  <elementcolor>red</elementcolor>
  <elementwidth>150</elementwidth>
</Line>