Example:
<Item name="item1">
<mode = "ax, bx" />
</Item>
<Item name="item2">
<mode = "bx, cx" />
</Item>
<Item name="item3">
<mode = "cx, dx" />
</Item>
In the example above I would like to extract all the items with modes containing "cx".
Thanks in advance!
Your XML in the example is not well formed. Assuming you meant:
<Items>
<Item name="item1">
<mode>ax, bx</mode>
</Item>
<Item name="item2">
<mode>bx, cx</mode>
</Item>
<Item name="item3">
<mode>cx, dx</mode>
</Item>
</Items>
you can do:
var els=from el in XDocument.Parse(inxml).Descendants("Item")
where el.Element("mode").Value.Contains("bx")
select el;
inxml here in your answer it is giving me error while writing the query Error 1 Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<System.Xml.Linq.XElement>'. 'Where' not found. Are you missing a reference to 'System.Core.dll' or a using directive for 'System.Linq'? D:\RND\TinyMce\Default.aspx.cs 148 30 D:\RND\TinyMce\ 
using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq;That is not legal XML (mode is an element name, you can set it equal to a string), but you should be able to do something like this, assuming that the string you are matching is the element value:
doc.Descendants("Item").Where( item => item.Elements("mode").Any( mode => mode.Value.Contains("cx")));
Assuming a well formed XML doc:
<Items>
<Item name="item1">
<mode>ax, bx</mode>
</Item>
<Item name="item2">
<mode>bx, cx</mode>
</Item>
<Item name="item3">
<mode>cx, dx</mode>
</Item>
</Items>
Do something like this:
XElement items = XElement.Load(@"C:\items.xml");
var filteredItems = from item in items.Descendants("Item")
where item.Element("mode").Value.Contains("cx")
select item;
foreach (var item in filteredItems)
{
Console.WriteLine(item.FirstAttribute.Value);
}
Output:
item2
item3
