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    <p>I am trying to parse some XML that looks similar to this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;document&gt; &lt;headings&gt; Important heading stuff. &lt;/headings&gt; &lt;startGroup group="1" /&gt; &lt;startItem value="1" /&gt;Item one stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;blockofdata&gt; &lt;startItem value="2" /&gt;Item two stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;startItem value="3" /&gt;Item three stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;/blockofdata&gt; &lt;startItem value="4" /&gt;Item four stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;endGroup /&gt; &lt;startGroup group="2" /&gt; &lt;startItem value="1" /&gt;Item one stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;startItem value="2" /&gt;Item two stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;startItem value="3" /&gt;Item three stuff&lt;endItem /&gt; &lt;endGroup /&gt; &lt;/document&gt; </code></pre> <p>I cannot figure out a linq-to-xml statement to get what I want. I need to flatten the structure. So assuming the above XML, I would like to get a list of this POCO:</p> <pre><code>class Items { public int GroupNumber {get;set;} // group property of startGroup public int ItemNumber {get;set;} // value property of startItem public string ItemText {get;set;} // data between i } </code></pre> <p>How do you write a linq-to-xml statement that would pull the data between the attributes into the above item while grabing the data from between startGroup/endGroup and the data between startItem/endItem? I have burned up several hours on this and am about to just switch to using a XML stream reader and parsing it the old fashioned way.</p>
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    1. CO@Jeff, the C# xml reader is not throwing any errors. I can get the attributes from the elements with my linq statment. What makes it invalid? Perhaps that is why I cannot get it to work. (I fixed my typo in it).
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    2. COOk looking at it again, I guess it's not really invalid, just very unorthodox. I tried reading that in and I was just getting a whole bunch of errors. I don't know what happened there but it's reading fine now.
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    3. COYes, unorthodox to be sure. It may be that linq-to-xml cannot work with how that data was formatted, but I thought I try to see if anyone as done this before with xml like this.
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