XElement get start Tag string

Question

Is possible to get the start tag string of an XElement?

For example, if i have an xml element like this

<Product Id="101" Name="Product 1">
    <Images>
        // ..
    </Images>
    <Description>
        // ..
    </Description>
</Product>

i want to get only the start tag:

<Product Id="101" Name="Product 1">

I use this for validation feedback purposes.

what are you using to traverse the XML document: XML reader, XPathNavigator .... ? — Moha the almighty camel, Oct 01 '13 at 07:56
XDocument is how you are storing the Data in memory, but how are you reading the tags one by one in the document, or you didn't do that yet ? — Moha the almighty camel, Oct 01 '13 at 07:59
To read elements i do something like this: (XDocument) `xDocument.Element("root").Elements("Product")`, which gives me a list of `XElement` objects — Catalin, Oct 01 '13 at 08:01
This is a possible duplicate for your question: [using XSLT](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7518717/xslt-display-all-xml-tag-contents) — Moha the almighty camel, Oct 01 '13 at 08:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '13 at 12:27

use query like

 XElement xele = XElement.Load("xmlfilename");
 XNamespace _XNamespace = XNamespace.Get("namespace url");
 IEnumerable<XElement> ProductAttribute = from ele in xele .Descendants(_XNamespace + "Product ")
                                          where ele.Attribute("Id").Value =="101" && ele.Attribute("Name") == "Product 1"
                                          select ele;

Hope it will work for you

XElement get start Tag string

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