LINQ to XML Overview

LINQ to XML is Microsoft’s new approach to process XML data using .Net, earlier in the days of .Net 2.0 we had a number of classes to deal with XMLs like

XMLDocument
XMLReader
XMLTextReader
XMLWriter
XMLTextWriter
XPathNavigator
XmlNodeReader etc ….

Knowing the purpose of each of these classes and using them at the right time was a tedious process, moreover we had to write many lines of code to process the XML documents; LINQ to XML comes as a solution to this problem.

LINQ to XML provides a set of new classes which can be used to process XML’s more effectively with limited code.

LINQ to XML loads the XML document into memory from the file system, allows us to modify the xml’s and also allows us to save the updated document back into the file system, the concept is similar to DOM, but it more effective and productive with the new features.

Since LINQ to XML supports LINQ queries, we can parse the XML’s using simple LINQ queries, earlier we had to iterate through the nodes or use an XPath filter to parse the XML document, now with LINQ this process has become a lot more easier.

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