parsing XML content - C#

Question

I have not used XML for very long and need to extract the useful information from an XML response. If there are 2 tags that are the same but have a different name e.g

Answer 1

You can do it with LINQ to XML:

var doc = XDocument.Load("YourXMLPath.xml");
var content = doc
.Element("lst")
.Elements("lst")
.Where(e=>((string) e.Attribute("name") ?? "")=="overflow")
.Select(e=>e.Element("str").InnerText())
.FirstOrDefault();