Since XElement’s “Attributes()” method was not one of the chosen ones to be exposed as a property using type descriptor, there is no way to do what you want in XAML. The only way is to call the Attributes() method in code.

Bea

XElements are really just objects, and Silverlight supports binding to objects. WPF supports the special syntax explained here so that you can specify what you want to bind to using XAML only. Silverlight doesn’t support that syntax, but you can bind directly to the XElement and use a Converter to find the values you want.

For example, if you have the following XElement:

XElement xElement1 = new XElement(“Root”, new XElement(“Child”, 1));

You could write a Converter like the one below to get to the child’s value:

public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
XElement xValue = (XElement)value;
return xValue.Element(“Child”).Value;
}

<TextBlock Text=”{Binding Converter={StaticResource XElementConverter}}” x:Name=”tb1″ />

Let me know if this works for your scenario.

Bea

Thanks!

This fails with this error:

BindingExpression path error: ‘Attributes’ property not found on ‘object’ ”XElement’

Is there any way to bind to the entire collection of Attributes since I won’t always know them by name?

This post is only for WPF – Silverlight doesn’t yet support this feature.
There are some workarounds though. Here’s an example: http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/121149/278015.aspx#278015.

Thanks,
Bea