How to write a single LINQ to XML query to iterate through all the child elements & all the attributes of the child elements?

Question

I am developing asp.net mobile application. I am using XML as a database. I am querying on the XML to access the required elements & attributes by using LINQ to XML in .

Answer 1

You could just iterate through all the elements and retrieve the attributes for each:

var allDescendants = myElement.DescendantsAndSelf();
var allDescendantsWithAttributes = allDescendants.SelectMany(elem =>
    new[] { elem }.Concat(elem.Attributes().Cast<XContainer>()));

foreach (XContainer elementOrAttribute in allDescendantsWithAttributes)
{
    // ...
}