Read XML Attribute using XDoc and C#

Suppose we have a XML file (say input.xml ) as under

<configuration><configValues first='true' second='false' third='12/29/2016' fourth='this is 4th value'/></configuration>

The objectiveis to read the attribute values. Below is the way

using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //the xml string
            string xmlDocPath = @"input.xml";

            //load the xml string in XDocument
            XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(xmlDocPath);

            //read the values
            foreach (var element in doc.Descendants("configValues"))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}  =  {1}", "first", element.Attribute("first").Value);
                Console.WriteLine("{0}  =  {1}", "second", element.Attribute("second").Value);
                Console.WriteLine("{0}  =  {1}", "third", element.Attribute("third").Value);
                Console.WriteLine("{0}  =  {1}", "fourth", element.Attribute("fourth").Value);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

Output
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first  =  true
second  =  false
third  =  12/29/2016
fourth  =  this is 4th value