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XDocument compared to XElement

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XDocument compared to XElement

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- [Narrator] I'd like to talk about the differences between the X element and X document classes. For most of this course, we've been working with the X element and we've been doing that by calling XElement.Load. Now X element represents one of the elements within the XML tree. It could be the root element or it can be any of the children. X document represents the entire XML doc, and that would include things like the XML declaration. If you look on line five, you can see that there is a way to load an X document. It's the same syntax, the only difference is when you call XDocument.Load it returns the next document, where Xelement.Load returns an X element. So let's see what we got here when we dump the X doc and the X element values. So here you see here, X doc, I'm getting a comment at the top of the XML document, and then I'm getting the root element and all of it's children. Whereas if I look at X element, I…

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