Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

7.5. Remove or Replace Elements or Attributes

Problem

You need to modify an XML document by completely removing or replacing certain attributes or elements.

Solution

Use one of the available replace or remove methods of the XElement class.

How It Works

The XElement class provides the following methods for replacing or removing elements or attributes in an existing XML tree:

• RemoveAll removes all elements (nodes and attributes) from the element represented by the current XElement instance.

• RemoveAttributes removes all the attributes from the element represented by the current XElement instance.

• ReplaceAll removes all the elements (nodes and attributes) from the element represented by the current XElement instance and replaces them with the element ...