Delete an inner node but not the value in xml with XDocument library in C# .NET

Question

I have the following XML file:

  
    
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Answer 1

Use ReplaceWith, e.g.

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("file.xml");
XElement span = doc.Descendants("p").First().Elements("span").FirstOrDefault(s => (string)s.Attribute("class") == "screenitems");
if (span != null) 
{
  span.ReplaceWith(span.Nodes());
}