How do I use LINQ to XML to create a list of objects?

Question

I have some inbound XML that I am trying to read with LINQ to generate a list of objects: ``` 20 2013-03-15T16:41:37-05:00 Notification details 1 New Test notification 1 1 1 1 ``` And I've created a simple POCO object to represent a 'Notification': ``` public class Notification { public System.DateTime notificationDate; pub…

Accepted Answer

`e` is just a parameter name your passing to the lambda expression, `new Notification()`. You can use it like this:

```
notificationList = x.Element("Notifications")
                    .Elements("Notification")
                    .Select(e => new Notification()
                                 {
                                     href = (string)e.Attribute("href")
                                     notificationDetails = (DateTime)e.Element("NotificationDate")
                                     notificationDate = (string)e.Element("NotificationDetails")
                                     status = (string)e.Element("Status")
                                     notificationTitle = (string)e.Element("NotificationTitle")
                                 }
                    .ToList();
```

Or if you prefer query syntax

```
notificationList =
    (from e in x.Element("Notifications").Elements("Notification")
     select new Notification()
            {
                href = (string)e.Attribute("href")
                notificationDetails = (DateTime)e.Element("NotificationDate")
                notificationDate = (string)e.Element("NotificationDetails")
                status = (string)e.Element("Status")
                notificationTitle = (string)e.Element("NotificationTitle")
            })
    .ToList();
```

How do I use LINQ to XML to create a list of objects?

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