How to sort xDocument node by name

Question

I've faced with problem where I have to sort the XDocument by node name. Example

<contact>
    <email></email>
    <address></address>
    <name></name> 
</contact>

And I want to get

<contact>
    <address></address>
    <email></email>
    <name></name>
</contact>

Thank you for your help.

I've tried to use

var ab = xdoc.Descendants("contact");
            var s = from abs in ab
                    orderby abs.Name.ToString() descending
                    select abs;

but the result staying the same

and what stopped you in the middle of solving this task? See [How to Ask](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) — Sergey Berezovskiy, Feb 16 '17 at 14:15
I've looked a lot of stackoverflow pages but didn't find the right answer — , Feb 16 '17 at 14:19
yep, 'dtb' answer helps me. Also 'Martin Honnen' gave the right answer — , Feb 16 '17 at 14:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '17 at 14:24

You need to replace the child nodes with the ordered nodes:

            XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(@"<contact>
    <email></email>
    <address></address>
    <name></name> 
</contact>");
            doc.Root.ReplaceNodes(doc.Root.Elements().OrderBy(el => el.Name.LocalName));

How to sort xDocument node by name

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