>I don't disagree - I guess I'm just ambivalent about it :-}

Well, I don't really care either ... just being obstinate I guess. <g>

~~Bonnie





>>>Well .Descendants is overloaded - there's a second usage that takes a XName parameter ; ditto with a Ancestors. And Element and Attribute always take parameters so they all need to be methods.....
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>>Not if the properties are Collections (which is what I thought they were) ... then you'd have .Descendants["Customer"] to retrieve one Descendant (which is also a collection).
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>Not neccessarily only one - there could well me multiple elements named 'Customer'. Also what syntax would you use to get all child elements ? .Descendants[""] would probably come up with nothing so an overloaded method might be the best way.
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>> But, anyway, if they wanted that sort of functionality, then the method should have been named .GetDescendants, instead of .Descendants. That's all I was saying. You don't agree?
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>I don't disagree - I guess I'm just ambivalent about it :-}
>Best,
>Viv