>>Looks like you got there. Could maybe have made more use of the .NET Xml namespaces or Linq to Xml tho.
>>The most 'elegant' way would probably be a XLST transform - but you could spend a month learning the ins and outs that :-{
>>Also interesting to note the performance differences between the .NET and VFP implementations :-}
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>I really dislike .NET documentation. Why do I need to go through 10+ pages to not see one clear full example? Say, I got the answer in my thread
>
>http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xmlandnetfx/thread/a1d05853-53da-43da-80ff-4b64a3c6919a
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>and I want to try it but it throws two errors. So, I presume I am missing a reference. But I do not know which one. I checked a few links in MSDN and none tells which using I need.
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>Well, that's strange.
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>This is MSDN sample
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>IEnumerable<XElement> partNos =
>    from item in purchaseOrder.Descendants("Item")
>    where (int) item.Element("Quantity") *
>        (decimal) item.Element("USPrice") > 100
>    orderby (string)item.Element("PartNumber")
>    select item;

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>and this is what I am trying
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>XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(input);
>
>         var nodes = doc.Element(rootNode).Descendants()
>             .Where(n => n.Value != "0" && n.Value != ".00" && n.Value != "false" && n.Value != "")
>             .Select(n => new { n.Name, n.Value, Count = n.Ancestors().Count() - 1, n.HasElements });
>

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>and I do not see why the second throws error about where not implemented?

using System.Linq ; ?