XML Get a specific element

Question

I have an XML doc that looks like this:

<root type="object">
  <totalResults type="number">x</totalResults>
  <itemsPerPage type="number">x</itemsPerPage>
  <startIndex type="number">x</startIndex>
  <schemas type="array">
    <item type="string">x</item>
  </schemas>
  <Resources type="array">
    <item type="object">
      <schemas type="array">
        <item type="string">x</item>
      </schemas>
      <id type="string">x</id>
      <externalId type="null"></externalId>
      <meta type="object">
        <created type="string">x</created>
        <location type="string">x</location>
      </meta>
      <userName type="string">x</userName>
      <emails type="array">
        <item type="object">
          <value type="string">[email protected]</value>
          <primary type="boolean">x</primary>
        </item>
      </emails>
    </item>
  </Resources>
</root>

And I am trying to get the email address like this:

 var emails = xmlContent.Root.Elements("Resources").Elements("item").Elements("Emails");
            foreach (XElement elem in emails)
            {
                Console.Write(elem.Value);
            }

This does not work. Any thoughts on how I can get the email addresses from this type of XML XDocument in C#? I've looked around at a few forums and tutorials but I cannot seem to get a handle on XPaths, etc.

Answer 1

 XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(new StringReader("<root ...")); //// load xml file
 var emails = xdoc.Descendants("Resources").Descendants("emails").ToList(); //// select all emails

I'm using Descendants because it finds children at any level and it searches entire subtree but Elements only finds immediate children