Empty all XML-nodes of a certain type using C# -

i have xml document built using following structure:

<a>      ....      <b>            <c>            </c>            <d>            ....            </d>      </b> </a> <a>    ....

i parse xml document using c# , output document in b-nodes emptied, without losing b-node. creating following result:

<a>    ...    <b /> </a> <a>    ...

can show me way this?

linq xml make pretty simple:

var doc = xdocument.load(...); var bs = doc.descendants("b").tolist(); foreach (var b in bs) {     b.replacenodes(); }

(use replaceall instead of replacenodes if want remove attributes within b nodes well.)

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