LINQ to XML Classes Overview

LINQ to XML offers a dozen classes to create and parse XML’s, here we shall see some of the important classes.


All the LINQ to XML classes are packed in the System.Xml.Linq Assembly

XDocument: The XDocument class is used to add header information to the XML document, like declaration, version information, style details, etc, it also embeds the Xml elements, the XDocument class is not mandatory, can be used as and when required.

The XDocument class contains methods to load and save the XML files to the file system.

XElement: The XElement class is the main class which is used to create XML structures, it contains methods to create, update, delete XML Elements to an XML Structure.

XAttribute: The XAttribute class is similar to the XElement class, the difference is that the XAttribute class is used to manage attributes in an XML Structure.

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