How to remove XComments from XElement?

Question

I was hoping to remove all of my XComment from the XElement before sending it to client.

from some reason it doesn't work and the removeMe.Count()=0

any thoughts?

{

   // ...

   myXml = XElement.Load(myPath);
   var removeMe=myXml.Descendants().Where(x => x.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Comment);
   removeMe.Count();        // this is 0 , (not what i was expected)
   removeMe.Remove();

   //...

   string myResponseStr = myXml.ToString(SaveOptions.None);
   context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
   context.Response.Write(myResponseStr);
 }

the xml file can be somthing like that

 <user>   
    <name> Elen </name>

    <userSettings>
       <color> blue  </color>                <!-- the theme color of the page -->
       <layout>  horizontal  </layout>      <!-- layout choise -->

       <!-- more settings -->

     </userSettings>

 </user>

Answer 1

You need to use DescendantNodes instead of Descendants.

Descendants returns XElement instances, so it basically only returns the tags of your XML.
DescendantNodes returns XNode instances, which includes comments.

doc.DescendantNodes().Where(x => x.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Comment).Remove();