LINQ to XML: How to select the next element

Question

I have a plist file from an iPhone app. It looks like this below:

  
    barcodes
    

        

Answer 1

var q = xml
        .Descendants("plist")
        .Descendants("dict")
        .Where(item => item.Value == "jobSteps")
        .Select(item => item.NextNode)
        .SingleOrDefault() // add this if you expect single match
        ;

The q will be either a single array node or a sequence of array nodes depending whether you use SingleOrDefault().