Count the node with whitespace
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class MainClass{
public static void Main(){
XElement xmlTree1 = XElement.Parse("<Root> <Child> </Child> </Root>", LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace);
xmlTree1.Save("Tree.xml");
Console.WriteLine(xmlTree1);
int whiteSpaceNodes;
XElement xmlTree3 = XElement.Load("Tree.xml",
LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace);
whiteSpaceNodes = xmlTree3
.DescendantNodesAndSelf()
.OfType<XText>()
.Where(tNode => tNode.ToString().Trim().Length == 0)
.Count();
Console.WriteLine("Count of white space nodes (preserving whitespace): {0}", whiteSpaceNodes);
}
}
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