How to scan XElement and put all the element ( with value ) in Dictionary?

My input is XElement object - and i need to convert this object to Dictionary

The XElement is look like this

 <Root>
    <child1>1</child1>
    <child2>2</child2>
    <child3>3</child3>
    <child4>4</child4>
 </Root>

And the output that i actually need to return is

Dictionary that look like this

[ Child1, 1 ]
[ Child2, 2 ]
[ Child3, 3 ]
[ Child4, 4 ]

How can i do it ?

thanks for any help.

You're looking for the ToDictionary() method:

root.Elements().ToDictionary(x => x.Name.LocalName, x => x.Value)

var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

Dictionary<string, int> result = doc.Root.Elements()
    .ToDictionary(k => k.Name.LocalName, v => int.Parse(v.Value));

You're all missing the point.

The keys are meant to be "ChileX", as in the country. :)

var xml = XElement.Parse("<Root><child1>1</child1><child2>2</child2><child3>3</child3><child4>4</child4></Root>");
var d = xml.Descendants()
   .ToDictionary(e => "Chile" + e.Value, e => v.Value);

You can try

XElement root = XElement.Load("your.xml");
Dictionary<string, string> dict = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach (XElement el in root.Elements())
    dict.Add(el.Name.LocalName, el.Value);

or

For linq solution check @jon skeet answer : Linq to XML -Dictionary conversion