XDocument XElement.Descendants issue

Question

I have a simple issue but I don't know how to fix it. I have an XML document that looks like this

<hotel>
   <rooms>
   </rooms>
   <rates>
      <rooms>
      </rooms>
   </rates>
</hotel>

Now, in my code I have the following

XElement hotel = xDoc.Descendants("hotel").Single();
XElement rooms = hotel.Descendants("rooms").Single();

The last line fails because there are two rooms nodes. What I want Descendants to do is give the immediate descendants of the current node, not every descendant no matter where it is in the document. How is this possible?

Thanks,

Sachin

Answer 1

To get the first rooms child element of the hotel node, use the Element method:

XElement rooms = hotel.Element("rooms");

Also, if you're really using an XDocument then the hotel node would be the root, and can be accessed using the xDoc.Root property.