Read text content from XElement
Just because I recently had a similar requirement, I'm offering up:
var x = XElement.Parse("<tag>Alice & Bob<other>cat</other></tag>")var text = string.Concat(x.Nodes().OfType<XText>().Select(t => t.Value));Will not capture text content of child nodes, but will concatenate all untagged text nodes in the current element.
Try following code It might help you..
namespace ConsoleApplication6{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var parent = XElement.Parse("<tag>Alice & Bob<other>cat</other></tag>"); var nodes = from x in parent.Nodes() where x.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text select (XText)x; foreach (var val in nodes) { Console.WriteLine(val.Value); } Console.ReadLine(); } }}