XML parsing in c#

Question

<CompanyRoot>
  <Company>
    <Name>Courier</Name>
    <Company>
      <Name>Dhl</Name>
      <Company>
        <Name>Test1</Name>
      </Company>
      <Company>
        <Name>Test4</Name>
        <Company>
          <Name>Test5</Name>
        </Company>
      </Company>
    </Company>
    <Company>
      <Name>BlueDart</Name>
      <Company>
        <Name>Test3</Name>
      </Company>
    </Company>
    <Company>
      <Name>FastFlight</Name>
    </Company>
  </Company>
</CompanyRoot>

I have an xml where I want the count of xml descendants at same level ie The count of descendants of "Courier" should be 3(DHL/Bluedart/Fastflight) instead of seven is there a way possible in c#

Answer 1

Descendants找到所有后代-您只需要直接的子元素：

var count = xElem.Elements("Company").Count();

Answer 2

评估这个Xpath表达式 ：

count(/*/Company)