How to query an XDocument with LINQ when elements have a colon in their name?

Question

I am trying to use LINQ to XML in an with the XDocument object. How do you query the result element in the example below?

Answer 1

That colon means that the XML is using namespaces. Based on this blogpost someone posted about LINQ, XML, and namespaces, here's a version of your code that you might want to try.:

static XName serv(string name)
{
  return XNamespace.Get("") + name;
}

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
string value = doc.Descendants(serv("header")).First().Descendants(serv("response")).First().Descendants(serv("result")).First().Value;