Merge two XML Files in C#

Question

Hello I'm trying to combine two XML files. However, I never get the connection in the right place. I tried two things but without success.

The two XML files look like this:

and they should look like this after:

I tried like 1#

var combinedUnique = doc2.Descendants("Actors")
                     .Union(doc1.Descendants("Actors"));
combinedUnique.First().Save(path);

But this deletes the Root and every "Actors"..

        MyDoc.Root.Add(XDocument.Load(System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "Resources/actors2.xml")).Descendants("Actor"));
        MyDoc.Save(path);

And this adds the "Actor" under "Actors". But i want to merge all "Actor" into "Actors" but how?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65884371/merge-two-xml-files-in-c-sharp

Answer 1

I checked for the linq .Union() method. It eliminates all duplicate nodes, thats the answer why you are missing something, you should achieve a proper result in using Concat() which preserves duplicate nodes