XContainer.Descendants Method

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Returns a collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order.

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
	Descendants()	Returns a collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order.
	Descendants(XName)	Returns a filtered collection of the descendant elements for this document or element, in document order. Only elements that have a matching XName are included in the collection.

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Remarks

This method uses deferred execution.

See Also

Reference

XContainer Class

System.Xml.Linq Namespace

DescendantNodes

Elements

Other Resources

Processing XML Data with LINQ to XML (Silverlight)