First, I tried this:

>>>             Dim desc = item.Element("description").value
>>>             Dim data = XElement.Parse("<data>" + desc.Value + "</data>")
>>>             Console.WriteLine(data.Value)

And that produced the contents of the CDATA section (including markup).

But, now I've got it working as desired using this:

            Dim cd As New XCData(item.Element("description").Value)
            'Now, use System.Xml and the XML DOM to get the text out of the 
CDATA section
            Dim data As New Xml.XmlDocument
            data.LoadXml("<data>" + cd.Value + "</data>")
            Console.WriteLine("     {0}", data.InnerText)

Thanks for your help!




"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> Scott M. wrote:
>>> Here is how you can do it, using Joe's suggestion:
>>>
>>>             XElement desc = XElement.Load(@"file.xml");
>>>             XElement data = XElement.Parse("<data>" + desc.Value + 
>>> "</data>");
>>>             Console.WriteLine(data.Value);
>>
>> After tweaking, I got this code running, but it doesn't strip out the 
>> markup, which is what I want.
>
> Can you show us your code? My sample works for me as you described, 
> outputting the text without markup.
>
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>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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