how to create XElement from a string?

Question

Say I have a string like

string var = "This is a test";

Then I want to use this string to create an instance of XElement like:

XElement element =  XElement.Load(var);

Answer 1

Use the XDocument.Parse method to parse the string into an XML Document.

var document = XDocument.Parse("<element>This is a test</element>");

var element = document.Root;