Loop through all of the Employee elements and remove the HireDate element.
Imports System Imports System.Xml.Linq Public Class MainClass Public Shared Sub Main() Dim employees As XElement = XElement.Load("Employees.xml") employees.<Employee>.ElementAt(3).Remove() For Each ele In employees.<Employee>.ToList ele.SetElementValue("HireDate", Nothing) Next Console.WriteLine(employees.ToString) End Sub End Class