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  1. POLinq to XML parsing a single "status" node from the twitter API
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    copied!<p>OK, i'm building a windows phone twitter app, and I can't get this data parsed out for some reason. I'm just trying to parse out a single status...</p> <p>Here is the xml data from twitter...</p> <pre><code>&lt;status&gt; &lt;created_at&gt;Sat Sep 10 17:59:12 +0000 2011&lt;/created_at&gt; &lt;id&gt;112585933307645952&lt;/id&gt; &lt;text&gt;AP: Start 'em/Sit 'em Week 1 - Arrowhead Pride (blog): Midwest Sports FansAP: Start 'em/Sit 'em Week 1Arrowhead ... http://t.co/rWnx5pe&lt;/text&gt; &lt;source&gt;&amp;lt;a href="http://twitterfeed.com" rel="nofollow"&amp;gt;twitterfeed&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/source&gt; &lt;truncated&gt;false&lt;/truncated&gt; &lt;favorited&gt;false&lt;/favorited&gt; &lt;in_reply_to_status_id&gt;&lt;/in_reply_to_status_id&gt; &lt;in_reply_to_user_id&gt;&lt;/in_reply_to_user_id&gt; &lt;in_reply_to_screen_name&gt;&lt;/in_reply_to_screen_name&gt; &lt;retweet_count&gt;0&lt;/retweet_count&gt; &lt;retweeted&gt;false&lt;/retweeted&gt; &lt;user&gt; &lt;id&gt;27680614&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;Fantasy Football&lt;/name&gt; &lt;screen_name&gt;hackhype&lt;/screen_name&gt; &lt;location&gt;Atlanta, GA&lt;/location&gt; &lt;description&gt;NFL News and Fantasy Perspective!&lt;/description&gt; &lt;profile_image_url&gt;http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/509176461/icon_normal.gif&lt;/profile_image_url&gt; &lt;profile_image_url_https&gt;https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/509176461/icon_normal.gif&lt;/profile_image_url_https&gt; &lt;url&gt;http://www.facebook.com/hackhype&lt;/url&gt; &lt;protected&gt;false&lt;/protected&gt; &lt;followers_count&gt;29888&lt;/followers_count&gt; &lt;profile_background_color&gt;ebebeb&lt;/profile_background_color&gt; &lt;profile_text_color&gt;333333&lt;/profile_text_color&gt; &lt;profile_link_color&gt;0084B4&lt;/profile_link_color&gt; &lt;profile_sidebar_fill_color&gt;ebebeb&lt;/profile_sidebar_fill_color&gt; &lt;profile_sidebar_border_color&gt;040470&lt;/profile_sidebar_border_color&gt; &lt;friends_count&gt;6789&lt;/friends_count&gt; &lt;created_at&gt;Mon Mar 30 17:01:37 +0000 2009&lt;/created_at&gt; &lt;favourites_count&gt;1&lt;/favourites_count&gt; &lt;utc_offset&gt;-18000&lt;/utc_offset&gt; &lt;time_zone&gt;Quito&lt;/time_zone&gt; &lt;profile_background_image_url&gt;http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/44228452/twitterbackground.jpg&lt;/profile_background_image_url&gt; &lt;profile_background_image_url_https&gt;https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/44228452/twitterbackground.jpg&lt;/profile_background_image_url_https&gt; &lt;profile_background_tile&gt;false&lt;/profile_background_tile&gt; &lt;profile_use_background_image&gt;true&lt;/profile_use_background_image&gt; &lt;notifications&gt;false&lt;/notifications&gt; &lt;geo_enabled&gt;false&lt;/geo_enabled&gt; &lt;verified&gt;false&lt;/verified&gt; &lt;following&gt;true&lt;/following&gt; &lt;statuses_count&gt;10219&lt;/statuses_count&gt; &lt;lang&gt;en&lt;/lang&gt; &lt;contributors_enabled&gt;false&lt;/contributors_enabled&gt; &lt;follow_request_sent&gt;false&lt;/follow_request_sent&gt; &lt;listed_count&gt;466&lt;/listed_count&gt; &lt;show_all_inline_media&gt;false&lt;/show_all_inline_media&gt; &lt;default_profile&gt;false&lt;/default_profile&gt; &lt;default_profile_image&gt;false&lt;/default_profile_image&gt; &lt;is_translator&gt;false&lt;/is_translator&gt; &lt;/user&gt; &lt;geo /&gt; &lt;coordinates /&gt; &lt;place /&gt; &lt;possibly_sensitive&gt;false&lt;/possibly_sensitive&gt; &lt;contributors /&gt; &lt;entities&gt; &lt;user_mentions /&gt; &lt;urls&gt; &lt;url end="135" start="116"&gt; &lt;url&gt;http://t.co/rWnx5pe&lt;/url&gt; &lt;display_url&gt;bit.ly/ookpnp&lt;/display_url&gt; &lt;expanded_url&gt;http://bit.ly/ookpnp&lt;/expanded_url&gt; &lt;/url&gt; &lt;/urls&gt; &lt;hashtags /&gt; &lt;/entities&gt; &lt;/status&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the code I'm using to parse it out (it's not working). It's compiling and running, but "thisTweet" is coming back as null....</p> <pre><code>XElement xmlData = XElement.Parse(e.Result); thisTweet = (from tweet in xmlData.Descendants("status") select new Tweet { created_at = tweet.Element("created_at").Value, text = tweet.Element("text").Value, //user info name = tweet.Element("user").Element("name").Value, profile_image_url = tweet.Element("user").Element("profile_image_url").Value, screen_name = tweet.Element("user").Element("screen_name").Value, user_id = tweet.Element("user").Element("id").Value }).First&lt;Tweet&gt;(); DataContext = thisTweet; </code></pre>
 

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