Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

Descendants

The Descendants operator can be called on a sequence of elements or documents and returns a sequence of elements containing each source element's or document's descendant elements.

Prototypes

The Descendants operator has two prototypes.

Example. The First Descendants Prototype

public static IEnumerable<XElement> Descendants<T> ( this IEnumerable<T> source ) where T : XContainer

This version is called on a sequence of elements or documents and returns a sequence of elements containing each source element's or document's descendant elements.

This is different from the XContainer.Descendants method in that this method is called on a sequence of elements or documents, as opposed to a single element or document.

Example. The Second ...