Parse mixed xml in C# Linq to Xml

Question

The xml element below

<text>this is some text <content><link attr="someattr">text to appear in link</link></content> . this is the end of the text</text>

needs to transform to

<p>this is some text <a attr="someattr">text to appear in link</a> . this is the end of the text</p>

I have a method that takes in "content" element as parameter and returns the "a" element. I cannot figure out how to display the text from "text" element and the link at the same time.

I you need to transform a text - perhaps Linq-to-Xml is not the right way to go. You should look into RegularExpressions — Jens Kloster
– Jens Kloster, Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 6:42
this is not text but xml. I have only shared a snippet of the xml. — skzi
– skzi, Commented Sep 11, 2014 at 22:36

har07 · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-11 06:48:40Z

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You can try this way :

var xml =
    @"<text>this is some text <content><link attr=""someattr"">text to appear in link</link></content> . this is the end of the text</text>";
var text = XElement.Parse(xml);
//change <text> to <p>
text.Name = "p";

var content = text.Element("content");
var link = content.Element("link");

//change <link> to <a>
link.Name = "a";

//move <a> to be after <content>
content.AddAfterSelf(link);

//remove <content> tag
content.Remove();

//print result
Console.WriteLine(text.ToString());

answered Sep 11, 2014 at 6:48

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skzi Over a year ago

This actually works but when the xml contains more than 1 "content" elements, then I cannot get it to work.

skzi Over a year ago

Instead of removing element using content.Remove(), I tried text.Elements("content").Remove(); which did the trick. I also ran the previous code in a foreach loop to add the "a" elements appropriately.

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