XML to List in C# -

this xml:

<packages>   <package>     <id>1</id>     <prerequisites>       <prerequisite>7</prerequisite>       <prerequisite>8</prerequisite>     </prerequisites>   </package>     <package>     <id>2</id>     .....   </package>   .... </packages> 

and list:

class lista { public int id {get; set;} public list<int> pre{get;set;} } 

how can add xml pattern list of lista class , have got far bot put 1 in second list.

xdocument xdoc = xdocument.load("employee.xml");         var listpckage =             (from item in xdoc.descendants("package")              orderby item.element("id").value              select new              {                  id = item.element("id").value,                  prerequisite = item.element("prerequisites").element("prerequisite").value,              }).tolist(); 

foreach works shoing them

foreach (var item in listpckage) { console.writeline(item.id); foreach (var item1 in listpckage) { console.writeline(item1.prerequisites); } } 

as john sket mentioned in comment question, 1 way achieve use linq xml.

//string xcontent = @"xml content here"; //xdocument xdoc = xdocument.parse(xcontent); xdocument xdoc = xdocument.load("fullpathtoxml"); list<lista> resultlist = xdoc.descendants("package")     .select(x=> new lista          {              id = convert.toint32(x.element("id").value),              pre = x.descendants("prerequisite").select(y=>convert.toint32(y.value)).tolist()           })     .tolist(); 

but, i'd suggest use xmlserialization/xmldeserialization.