Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

LINQ to XML Operators

At this point, I am deep into LINQ to XML, and you are probably starting to wonder, "When are we going to get to the part about queries?" If so, then I say, "Hold on to your null reference there, Shortcake, you have been seeing them." Throughout the previous chapter, I was performing LINQ to XML queries whether they were merely returning all the child elements of an element or obtaining all of the ancestors of a node. Do you remember seeing the XContainer.Elements method? Do you recall any examples where I called the XContainer.Elements method? If so, you saw a LINQ to XML query. As evidence yet again to the seamless integration of LINQ queries into the language, it is sometimes easy to overlook that you are performing ...