Count the leaves of an XML string with C#

Question

Is there a simple way to get the number of all leaves of an XML string (XML document is provided as a string) with C#?

Accepted Answer

```
XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
var count = xDoc.Descendants().Where(n => !n.Elements().Any()).Count();
```

or as @sixlettervariables suggested

```
var count = xDoc.Descendants().Count(e => !e.HasElements);
```

Solution