How Can I Delete A Parent Node From An Xml Without Deleting The Child Node.

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I am having an xml file ,can i delete one parent node without impacting the child nodes?

The xml is like below

XML

<?xml version="1.0">
<configuration>
<appsetting>
<add key="" value="">
</appsetting>
</configuration>

i need to delete only the configuration tags without hampering other tags ,pls suggest

the output will looks as below.

XML

<?xml version="1.0">
<appsetting>
<add key="" value="">
</appsetting>

Posted 19-May-15 1:21am

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Updated 19-May-15 1:45am

Tomas Takac

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Sinisa Hajnal 19-May-15 8:03am

You have to create document fragment with child nodes of the node you want to delete. Add it to deleted node parent (in this case, root node). After that you can delete the node.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2015-05-19T02:04:00

Almost...
A child node, by definition, can not exists without parent, so what you have to do is to move ALL child nodes of the parent to an other parent and then remove - the now empty - node...
LINQ to XML has a lot of cool methods to do such thing with ease...
One of them is AddBeforeSelf[^]...

C#

XElement nodeToRemove = bla-bla-bla;

nodeToRemove.AddBeforeSelf(nodeToRemove.Elements());
nodeToRemove.Remove();