How do I just call child of my parents not its grand child

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I am making a parser for state chart XML using C#. As we know there may be 2 children of state chart XML state and parallel so I make 2 functions one for state and other for parallel. How just I can call children of scxml not child of its child in my code it is calling all child+grandchild+grand_grand and so on.so Please some one explain how to just call child of scxml

I have tried to call its child but all its child comming
and my xml code is

<scxml> 
       <state id="appear"> 
               <onentry>
	<send delay="2000ms" event="viman_1" target="target">
	<send event="viman_1" delay="2000ms">\
		
              <transition event="born" ontransit="say_hello" target="target"> 
              <transition event="viman_1" ontransit="say_hello" target="live"> 
		 <parallel id="live"> 
                    <transition event="hp_zero" target="dead"> 
                        <state id="eat"> 
                         
                         <state id="move"> 
                          
                 
			  
		<onexit>
		 <log expr="'onexit: TS0_s01'">
				
	 
   
		
       <final id="dead">'

What I have tried:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var 
    xdocXDocument.Load(@"C:/Users/path.xml");

    IEnumerable<xelement> de = from el in xdoc.Descendants() select el;
    foreach (XElement el in de)
    {
        if (string.Equals(el.Name.ToString(), "state", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
        {
            stat(el);
        }
        else if (string.Equals(el.Name.ToString(), "parallel", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
        {
            parr(el); //my function
        }

    }
}