I'm trying to select some childelements from my object XElement
and put them in a new XElement
.
var objNodes =
doc.Descendants("object")
.Where(node => node.Attribute("table").Value == idbsObject.Key)
.Select(item => new XElement(item.Element("object"), new XElement(item.Element("nodes"))));
With this part
var objNodes =
doc.Descendants("object")
.Where(node => node.Attribute("table").Value == idbsObject.Key)
I'm able to get the object element looking like this
<object occur="-1" prefix="" table="Articles" description="" singlename="" name="" statemode="disabled" link="" exportable="0">
<views>
<view id="1" type="" name="">
<sql>SELECT ObjectID FROM WHERE</sql>
<columns>
<column description="" sortnode="" width="" />
</columns>
<values />
</view>
</views>
<objectviews>
<view id="view1" type="view" name="Bekijken" show="1" link="" />
<view id="view2" type="edit" name="Bewerken" show="1" link="" />
<view id="view3" type="delete" name="Verwijderen" show="1" link="" />
<view id="view4" type="add" name="Toevoegen" show="1" link="" />
</objectviews>
<nodes>
<node id="ArticleId" description="" required="" datatype="i" nodetype="" fieldlength="" reference="" exclude="" tab="" order="0" default="" decimals="" maxchars="" help="" unique="" show="" />
<node id="Title" description="" required="" datatype="s" nodetype="" fieldlength="" reference="" exclude="" tab="" order="10" default="" decimals="" maxchars="" help="" unique="" show="" />
</nodes>
<tabs>
<tab id="" order="0" type="normal" child="" foreignkey="" description="Algemeen" link="" />
</tabs>
</object>
But how can I get the object and nodes element? I'm able to get the nodes but I can't manage to combine the object and nodes element into one. For the object element I don't want all the child elements.
Expected result
<object occur="-1" prefix="" table="Articles" description="" singlename="" name="" statemode="disabled" link="" exportable="0">
<nodes>
<node id="ArticleId" description="" required="" datatype="i" nodetype="" fieldlength="" reference="" exclude="" tab="" order="0" default="" decimals="" maxchars="" help="" unique="" show="" />
<node id="Title" description="" required="" datatype="s" nodetype="" fieldlength="" reference="" exclude="" tab="" order="10" default="" decimals="" maxchars="" help="" unique="" show="" />
</nodes>
</object>
When I try to get the object element like this
var objNodes = doc.Descendants("object")
.Where(node => node.Attribute("table").Value == idbsObject.Key)
.Select(item => new XElement(item.Element("object")));
objNodes is null
Comments can't be marked as accepted. I knew it would work because I answered similar question a few weeks ago. In the original answer made slight mistake used XElement[] and got an error because I was combining XAttributes and XElement[]. Notice in my solution is used "object" which is the tag name.
var objNodes = doc.Descendants("object") .Where(node => node.Attribute("table").Value == idbsObject.Key) .Select(item => new XElement("object", new object[] {item.Attributes(), item.Element("nodes")}));