Remove parent from the XElement

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how to remove the parent tag from the xml " Tickets" the remaining nodes should be there

<Tickets>
    <Extract_Date>2011-02-25 00:00:00</Extract_Date>
    <Ticket>
        <Ticket_Number>INC000000578057</Ticket_Number>
        <Status>
            <Value>Cancelled</Value>
            <Reason>Cancelled by user</Reason>
        </Status>
    </Ticket>
</Tickets>

Delete it by notepad? Since tag has no closing, this is no valid xml file... — Daniel Mošmondor, Jul 12 '12 at 22:07
What are you trying to do? All XML documents need to have a single root element containing all the other elements to be considered valid XML. In this instance, `` is that element. — dash, Jul 12 '12 at 22:10
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387051.aspx check out this link msdn site — MethodMan, Jul 12 '12 at 22:11
@L.B I would have said Ticket except for that Pesky Extract_Date element preceding it. — dash, Jul 12 '12 at 22:12
want to remove the parent ,the link looks like it removes child nodes — , Jul 12 '12 at 22:13
What would you want to do with the children? Ultimately they need to be children of one specific root node. — Pablo Romeo, Jul 12 '12 at 22:14
... and you have no node above children so you would still need one... — Daniel Mošmondor, Jul 12 '12 at 22:14
want to serialize the other nodes and save it to DB,while deserializing adding dynamically the parent. — , Jul 12 '12 at 22:22

gilly3 · Answer 1 · 2012-07-12T22:25:48.997

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The .Elements() method of XElement returns all of the element's children.

IEnumerable<XElement> GetElementsWithoutParent(XElement element)
{
    return element.Elements();
}

Of course, such a method would be silly when you could just call the .Elements() method directly, but it illustrates the point.

Keep in mind that you no longer have an XElement, but an XElement collection. You can no longer get the XML representation by simply calling .ToString(). To get the XML, you'll need to use a StringBuilder and append each individual element. And it can't represent an XML document without a root node.

edited Jul 12 '12 at 22:25

answered Jul 12 '12 at 22:13

gilly3

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return element.Elements();it just returns null, dont know why it does that – Jul 12 '12 at 22:29
@Gani - Please include your C# code in your question. – gilly3 Jul 12 '12 at 22:32
i have to serialize the xml without parent otherwise it throws error while deserializing – Jul 12 '12 at 22:40
@Gani - Please include your C# code in your question. Click "Edit" under your question, then add some C# code and save changes. – gilly3 Jul 12 '12 at 22:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '12 at 22:25

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want to serialize the other nodes and save it to DB,while deserializing adding dynamically the parent

XElement newRoot = ........
newRoot.Add(orgXDoc.Element("Tickets").Elements());

answered Jul 12 '12 at 22:25

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wanted to remove the root tag not adding – Jul 12 '12 at 22:28

Remove parent from the XElement

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