Reading Node Count in Xml using LINQ to XML

This blog is to provide a way to get the count of a particular node in an xml.

I came upon this situation where I wanted to know the count of a certain node in an XML file. Now the count of that node could be way more than 50k so there was no way it could have been counted manually.

Therefore, I used LINQ to XML to get the count of the node.

 

The code for the same is as below: 

string filename = @"C:\Vipul\Desktop\test.xml";
            var count = XDocument.Load(filename).Root.Descendants("ThisNode").Count();
            Console.WriteLine(count);

This count of the node "ThisNode" is now in the variable count and can be used as required.

 

In case of any queries, please feel free to comment.