Prevents an Empty Element : XElement : XML LINQ C# Source Code

Prevents an Empty Element

    
 

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
public class MainClass {
    public static void Main() {
        IEnumerable<XElement> elements =
          new XElement[] {
    new XElement("Book",
      new XElement("Name", "J"),
      new XElement("Book", "LINQ")),
    new XElement("Book",
      new XElement("Name", "J"))};

        XElement xElement =
          new XElement("Books",
            elements.Select(e =>
              new XElement(e.Name,
              new XElement(e.Element("Name").Name, e.Element("Name").Value),
           e.Elements("Book").Any() ?
             new XElement("Books", e.Elements("Book")) : null)));

        Console.WriteLine(xElement);

    }
}

 
    
   
  
   

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• Calling the ToString Method on an Element Produces the XML Tree
• Immediate Execution of the XML Tree Construction
• Casting an Element to Its Value's Data Type Outputs the Value
• Different Node Value Types Retrieved via Casting to the Node Value's Type
• Casting a Node to a Different Data Type Than Its Value's Original Data Type
• Creating an Element Using the First Prototype
• Use XElement.Parse to parse an element document
• Is an element empty
• Accessing the XML Document from an XElement Object via the Document Property
• An Example with a Single Book
• Adding a Node to the End of the Specified Node's Child Nodes with Add
• Obtaining Elements Without Reaching
• Obtaining Restricted Elements Without Reaching
• Obtaining Restricted Elements Without Reaching While Ordering and Using Query Expression Syntax
• Suppressing Node Construction with null
• Generates an Empty Element
• Handling Multiple Peer Nodes While Maintaining a Flat Structure
• XElement.Load("Employee.xml")
• Create XML document from object list
• Creates the XML Tree
• Saving an Element with the XElement.Save Method
• Loading an Element with the XElement.Load Method
• Parsing an XML String into an Element