CSharp - Removing a Node's Content with RemoveAll

Description

Removing a Node's Content with RemoveAll

Demo

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Program//from w  ww.  j a  v a 2  s. c om
{
    static void Main(string[] args){
          XDocument xDocument = new XDocument(
            new XElement("Books",
              new XElement("Book",
                new XAttribute("type", "Author"),
                new XElement("FirstName", "Joe"),
                new XElement("LastName", "Ruby")),
              new XElement("Book",
                new XAttribute("type", "Editor"),
                new XElement("FirstName", "PHP"),
                new XElement("LastName", "Python"))));
    
          Console.WriteLine(System.Environment.NewLine + "Before removing the content.");
          Console.WriteLine(xDocument);
    
          xDocument.Element("Books").RemoveAll();
    
          Console.WriteLine(System.Environment.NewLine + "After removing the content.");
          Console.WriteLine(xDocument);
    }
}

Result

Related Topic

• Creating Elements with XElement
• Creating XElement from String value
• Creating XML Tree via XElement
• Creating XElement from LINQ statement
• Creating an Element and Assigning a String As Its Value
• Cast XElement to String
• Cast XElement to the Node Value's Type
• Cast a Node to a Different Data Type Than Its Value's Original Data Type
• Cast to a Bool Calls the System.Xml.XmlConvert.ToBoolean Method
• Use ToString Method on an Element to get XML Tree in String
• Creating a Text Node and Passing It As the Value of a Created Element
• Using Functional Construction to Create an XML
• Generating an XML Tree with a LINQ Query
• Deferred Execution of the XML Tree Construction by Using the XStreamingElement Class
• Accessing Named Child Elements Using the Elements Method
• Accessing the First Child Element with a Specified Name
• Using ReplaceAll to Change an Element's Subtree
• Accessing an Element's Child Elements Using the Elements Method
• Using the OfType Operator to Return Just the Elements
• Use LINQ to restrict the sequence of XML nodes to get comment only
• Adding a Node to the End of the Specified Node's Child Nodes with Add
• Adding a Node to the Beginning of the Specified Node's Child Nodes with AddFirst
• Adding a Node in the Specified Node's Child Nodes with AddBeforeSelf
• Adding a Node in a Specific Location of the Specified Node's Child Nodes with AddAfterSelf
• Deleting a Specific Node with Remove
• Deleting a Sequence of Nodes with Remove
• Updating a Node's Value
• Using SetElementValue to Update, Add, and Delete Child Elements
• Add annotations based on their type attribute
• Enumerate through the elements and retrieve the element's annotation:

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