How to get element names from XElement using C #?

Question

I have Xml and I need to get the element name

<Data> <Test key="G" modifier="control" /> <Test1 key="E" modifier="control" /> <Test3 /> <Test4 /> </Data> XDocument xd = XDocument.Load("..\\Cmd.xml"); IEnumerable<XElement> xeCmdData = Cmd.XPathSelectElements(".//Data"); foreach (XElement xeData in xeCmdData) { // here i am getting the whole xml how to get Element name ... // Like <Data> // <Test key="G" modifier="control" /> // <Test1 key="E" modifier="control" /> // <Test3 /> // <Test4 /> // </Data> } 

How to get element names?

Answer 1

 XDocument xd = XDocument.Load("..\\Cmd.xml"); IEnumerable<string> names = xd.XPathSelectElements("//Data/*") .Select(e => e.Name.LocalName); 

Or without XPath

 IEnumerable<string> names = xd.Descendants("Data") .Elements() .Select(e => e.Name.LocalName); 

Result:

 Test Test1 Test3 Test4