What's the difference between XElement and XDocument?

Hi Kundan64,
XDocument represents a whole XML Document which contains n number of Elements,where as XElement refers to an XMlElelemt in XMLDocument which contains some attributes and child elements.

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Murali Krishna.S

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hi kundan ,

Xdocument is a whole xml document , i.e when we need to read the xml from some source then will use the xdocument .
when we want to apply projections,filters on the xml file then we will use Xelements

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V.SaratChand
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Hi friend

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XDocument represents a whole XML document. It is normally composed of a number of elements.

XElement represents an XML element (with attributes, children etc). It is part of a larger document.

Use XDocument when working with a whole XML document, XElement when working with an XML element.

For example - XElement has a HasAttributes property indicating whether any attributes exist on the element, but an XDocument doesn't, as such a property is meaningless in the context of a whole XML Document.

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