XElement value in C#

Question

How to get a value of XElement without getting child elements?

An example:

    someValue
            


        

Answer 1

You can do it slightly more simply than using Descendants - the Nodes method only returns the direct child nodes:

XElement element = XElement.Parse(
    @"somevalue12");
var firstTextValue = element.Nodes().OfType().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(
    @"12some value");
var firstTextValue = element.Nodes().OfType().First().Value;