Summary
In this chapter, I covered how to use LINQ to XML to create, modify, and traverse XML documents, as well as how to perform LINQ queries on a single XML object. In this demonstration, you hopefully saw that the new API for creating and modifying XML data is not just a luxury but instead is a necessity for performing LINQ queries. You can't very well project data into an XML structure if you can't create an XML element on the fly, initialize its value, and place it in the XML tree in a single statement. The W3C DOM XML API is totally incapable of the flexibility needed to perform a LINQ query, which, as it turns out, is lucky for us because we got an entirely new XML API because of it.
While this chapter was useful for demonstrating how ...
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