Parse Complex Structure of XML - windows-phone-8

Question

I want to show data before parsing Local XML but don't know how?I tried it by using this
XDocument loadedData = XDocument.Load("People.xml");
var data = from query in loadedData.Descendants("array")
select new Person {
Name = (string)query.Element("string"),
};
listBox1.ItemsSource = data;
but it shows me only one element.
XML is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dict>
<key>Categories</key>
<array>
<string>Playing baseball</string>
<string>Driving a car</string>
<string>Getting dressed</string>
<string>Eating a hamburger</string>
<string>Tying shoelace</string>
</array>
</dict>
I want to parse all string element.

Answer 1

This should work. You want to iterate the elements within the array element, so we call Descendants("array").Elements(). There's no need to cast query.Value to a string as the value property is returned as a string.
XDocument loadedData = XDocument.Load("People.xml");
var data = (from query in loadedData.Descendants("array").Elements()
select new Person
{
Name = query.Value,
}).ToList();
listBox1.ItemsSource = data;

Answer 2

The Element(System.Xml.Linq.XName) method only returns one element--the first child element with the specified name. Use the Elements(System.Xml.Linq.XName) overload instead, which returns a collection of all elements whose name is the specified name.
Try this code:
XDocument loadedData = XDocument.Load("People.xml");
// Get all the <string /> elements from all th
var data =
from query in loadedData.Descendants("array")
from stringElem in query.Elements("string")
select new Person { Name = (string)stringElem.Value };
listBox1.ItemsSource = data;