XDocument to XElement

Question

How do you convert an XDocument to an XElement?

I found the following by searching, but it's for converting between XDocument and XmlDocument, not XDocument and XElement.

public static XElement ToXElement(this XmlElement xmlelement)
{
    return XElement.Load(xmlelement.CreateNavigator().ReadSubtree());
}

public static XmlDocument ToXmlDocument(this XDocument xdoc)
{
    var xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
    xmldoc.Load(xdoc.CreateReader());
    return xmldoc;
}

I couldn't find anything to convert an XDocument to an XElement. Any help would be appreciated.

-1. "this is not helpful" is note very helpful explanation of the problem. (Unless it is self-assessing the quality of the post, but then it should be comment :)). Also check your keyboard - it seem to eaten some characters from "you"... — Alexei Levenkov, Nov 19 '12 at 19:19
Your code example doesn't even perform the conversion you are asking about. The code converts `XmlElement` to `XElement` and `XDocument` to `XmlDocument`. What are you *actually* asking? — psubsee2003, Nov 19 '12 at 19:22
There is no link of converting from XmlDocument to XmlElement — StackOverflowVeryHelpful, Nov 19 '12 at 19:25
My reason for using XElement is bcoz i need to pass it to an argument. — StackOverflowVeryHelpful, Nov 19 '12 at 19:29
There is no link of converting from XmlDocument to XmlElement. I will convert from XDocument to XmlDocument . Then if i can convert from XmlDocument to XmlElement . I can convert from XmlElement to XElement. Its not clean but i require XElement as it is passed as parameter — StackOverflowVeryHelpful, Nov 19 '12 at 19:32
Just get the `.Root` element as Pawel and JohnD said. I added an answer with an explicit code sample, just to be clear about it. — Bobson, Nov 19 '12 at 20:08

score 37 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 20:07

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Other people have said it, but here's explicitly a sample to convert XDocument to XElement:

 XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(...);
 return doc.Root;

answered Nov 19 '12 at 20:07

Bobson

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@Pawel - Yes, but I felt the need to make it very explicit, with the trivial code sample, since the OP was still looking for an answer. – Bobson Nov 19 '12 at 20:59
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Not to forget this acts on the same reference, i.e. if you edit the resultant XElement, the changes are reflected on XDocument doc as well. This may or may not be desired. – nawfal Aug 19 '15 at 06:15

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '12 at 19:36

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XDocument to XmlDocument:

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(xdoc.CreateReader());

XmlDocument to XDocument

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(new XmlNodeReader(xmlDoc));

To get the root element from the XDocument you use xDoc.Root

answered Nov 19 '12 at 19:36

Pawel

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 23 '13 at 14:58

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Simple conversion from XDocument to XElement

XElement cvtXDocumentToXElement(XDocument xDoc)
{
    XElement xmlOut = XElement.Parse(xDoc.ToString());
    return xmlOut;
}

answered Jul 23 '13 at 14:58

Steve Hendren

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Not to forget this creates a completely new instance of XElement, i.e. changes made to XElement wont be reflected on XDocument. This may or may not be desired. – nawfal Aug 19 '15 at 06:17

XDocument to XElement

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