2D List Of String?

Question

Hello,
I didn't learn LINQ, but am given this code:

        Dim MyResult As List(Of String) = MyXDocument.Root _  
            .Elements(MyXSpace + "category") _  
            .Select(Function(c) c.Attribute("name").Value & " :: " & c.Attribute("color").Value) _  
            .ToList()  

This saves xml node name & color in a single field like:

nameX :: colorBlue

I'd like to save them in a 2D List Of String, not sure if this the correct definition (so won't have to split it again later):

Dim MyResult As List(Of List(Of String))

And then how to write the .Select line to save c.Attribute("name").Value and c.Attribute("color").Value each one in a dimension of List?

Answer 1

don't know vb, but in C# it would be:

 var MyResult = MyXDocument.Root  
             .Elements(MyXSpace + "category")  
             .Select(c => new List<string>   
             {  
                   c.Attribute("name").Value,   
                   c.Attribute("color").Value  
             })  
             .ToList();