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

LINQ to XML in System.Xml.Linq namespace.

const string xml = @"OlaHello";

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

IEnumerable overflow = doc.Root.Elements("lst").Where(x => (string) x.Attribute("name") == "overflow");

XElement firstOverflow = overflow.FirstOrDefault();

string value = firstOverflow.Descendants("str").FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value);