Counting the number of elements in an XML document

Question

I am wondering if it is possible to count the number of elements in an XML document preferably being able to fitler using something similar to where (string)query.Attribute("attName") == att.

Using the best of my knowledge i have tried the following but unfortunatly i can't seem to make it work.

                        var listElements = reader.Elements("shortlist");

                        foreach (var element in listElements)
                        {
                            XElement _xml;
                            location.Position = 0;
                            System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(location);
                            _xml = XElement.Parse(file.ReadToEnd());
                            XAttribute attName = _xml.Attribute("attN");

                             if (attName.Value == att)
                            {
                                Count++;
                            }                              
                        }

Thanks!

Answer 1

Given that doc is an instance of XDocument

doc.Root.Descendants().Count(d => (string)d.Attribute("attName") == "value");