Get the Decendants of a XML doc

Question

I'm attempting to get just the inner xml of the following XML/XAML doc.

<Root>
    <Child1>
       Hello
    </Child1>

</Root>

Desired Result

    <Child1>
       Hello
    </Child1>

My code below Shows this Message

Hello

I'm expecting the Child elements as well but unable to achieve this.

Code

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xx);
string fragment = (string)doc.Root.Descendants().FirstOrDefault();

possible duplicate of [Best way to get InnerXml of an XElement?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3793/best-way-to-get-innerxml-of-an-xelement) — Dmitry, Apr 15 '14 at 15:02
@Dmitry, ah, but the questioner wants the *outer* XML of the element :) — Frédéric Hamidi, Apr 15 '14 at 15:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '14 at 15:26

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You should be using ToString() instead of casting to string.

XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xx);
string fragment = doc.Root.Descendants().FirstOrDefault().ToString();

answered Apr 15 '14 at 15:26

Chris Hinton

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