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When I do 

XPathSelectElement("/root/title").ToString()

I get for example <title>this is an <strong>example</strong></title>. But I don't want to get <title> around the text.

When I do

XPathSelectElement("/root/title").Value

then it gets only the text without <strong></strong>

How can I solve this?

Ozkan
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From memory:

XPathSelectElement("/root/title/text()").ToString()

Alternatively, you might select all child nodes (/root/title/*) and join the their string representations

sehe
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  • No. That gets the same as `.Value`. – R. Martinho Fernandes Apr 19 '11 at 09:34
  • I was still typing I guess :) – sehe Apr 19 '11 at 09:35
  • the first doesn't work, i get an error but dont know what exactly. and the second: '/root/title/*' gives a nullreferenceexception if there is only plain text in the xml node – Ozkan Apr 19 '11 at 10:34
  • You can, of course, check for nulls. However, I think the real trouble is that you wanted text nodes as well as elements. My xpath is (unfortunately) too sloppy to remember whether that was (standard) possible – sehe Apr 19 '11 at 10:39
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You can create an XmlReader and read the inner xml from it.

XElement element = doc.XPathSelectElement("/root/title");
XmlReader reader = element.CreateReader();
reader.MoveToContent();
string innerXml = reader.ReadInnerXml();
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