Simple Example of using LINQ 2 XML to Parse XML Data Entries into C# Objects

LINQ2XML-Example.cs

// Simple Example of using LINQ 2 XML to Parse XML Data Entries into C# Objects
// Author: Sergey Berezovskiy
// Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14226473/c-sharp-parsing-xml-file
// NOTE: Your XML file should have a single root node

var xdoc = XDocument.Load(path_to_xml);
var entries = from e in xdoc.Descendants("entry")
              select new {
                 Id = (int)e.Attribute("id"),
                 Type = (string)e.Attribute("type"),
                 Name = (string)e.Element("name"),
                 Description = (string)e.Element("description")
              };

// The above Query will return sequence of anonymous objects corresponding to each 
// entry element (with properties Id, Type, Name, and Description).