Extensions.DescendantsAndSelf Method

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Returns a collection of every element in the source collection, and all descendant elements for every element in the source collection.

This member is overloaded. For complete information about this member, including syntax, usage, and examples, click a name in the overload list.

Overload List

	Name	Description
	DescendantsAndSelf(IEnumerable<XElement>)	Returns a collection of elements that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendent elements of every element in the source collection.
	DescendantsAndSelf(IEnumerable<XElement>, XName)	Returns a filtered collection of elements that contains every element in the source collection, and the descendents of every element in the source collection. Only elements that have a matching XName are included in the collection.

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Remarks

Although Visual Basic has an integrated XML axis for descendant elements, there is no integrated axis that has the semantics of this method.

This method uses deferred execution.

See Also

Reference

Extensions Class

System.Xml.Linq Namespace

Other Resources

Processing XML Data with LINQ to XML (Silverlight)