How to get elements by name in XML using LINQ

Question

I\'ve chosen the title here as my problem is I need to get the Item nodes mentioned in the example. I have the following XML and am having problems using LINQ to query it, I

Answer 1

I had a blank Namespace Declaration in my XML I hadn't noticed once I added this into my code it worked - forgot LINQ is very NameSpace oriented!

XNamespace ns = "http://example.org/namespace";
var ids = element.Element(ns + "items") 
                 .Elements("item") 
                 .Select(item => item.Element("id").Value);