Parsing XML with Mixed Content in C# - Missing Text Nodes
I'm collaborating on a project where I'm getting frustrated with I'm currently facing an issue while trying to parse an XML document that includes mixed content. Specifically, I have an XML structure as follows: ```xml <root> <item> <name>Item 1</name> <description>This is <b>bold</b> text and more <i>italic</i> text.</description> </item> </root> ``` My goal is to extract both the text and formatted elements within the `<description>` tag. I'm using `System.Xml.Linq` for LINQ to XML processing in .NET 5. Here’s the code snippet I have so far: ```csharp using System; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; class Program { static void Main() { var xml = @"<root>\n <item>\n <name>Item 1</name>\n <description>This is <b>bold</b> text and more <i>italic</i> text.</description>\n </item>\n</root>"; var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml); var description = doc.Descendants("item") .Select(item => item.Element("description")) .FirstOrDefault(); if (description != null) { Console.WriteLine(description.Value); // Outputs: This is bold text and more italic text. } } } ``` The issue I'm encountering is that when I retrieve `description.Value`, it only returns the concatenated text without the formatting, resulting in the output being `This is bold text and more italic text.` instead of preserving the HTML tags. I want to include the formatted text as well, ideally returning the inner HTML as a string. I've also tried using `description.Nodes()` to access the child nodes, but that seems more complex for the output I need. Am I missing something in handling the mixed content? How can I correctly extract the inner content while preserving the tags? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! I'm working with C# in a Docker container on Windows 10. Am I approaching this the right way? Thanks in advance!