Query Xml document by node type with Linq
using System; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; public class MainClass { public static void Main() { TextReader sr; int whiteSpaceNodes; sr = new StringReader("<Root> <Child> </Child> </Root>"); XDocument xmlTree2 = XDocument.Load(sr, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace); sr.Close(); whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree2 .Element("Root") .DescendantNodesAndSelf() .OfType<XText>() .Where(tNode => tNode.ToString().Trim().Length == 0) .Count(); Console.WriteLine(whiteSpaceNodes); } }