How do I get a list of child elements from XDocument object?

Question

I am trying to get all of the \"video\" elements and their attributes from an XML file that looks like this:

Answer 1

You want to select Descendants("video"). "videos" appears to be your root entry, of which there is 1 element. The inner elements of videos are what you want to query.

Example:

var query = from video in document.Descendants("video")
            select new
            {
                Title = video.Attribute("title").Value,
                Path = video.Attribute("path").Value
            };

That gives you an IEnumerable of an anonymous type with two string properties. Otherwise, you could simply select "video" and get an IEnumerable<XElement>, which you would further parse as needed.