I want to tell you about very useful project LINQ to XSD

The LINQ to XSD technology provides .NET developers with support for typed XML programming. LINQ to XSD contributes to the LINQ project (.NET Language Integrated Query); in particular, LINQ to XSD enhances the existing LINQ to XML technology.

Please consider the following code:

services services = services.Load(@"c:\services.xml");
string name = services.service.First(x => x.FullTypeName == "xx").Namespace;

As you probably understand it reads XML underneath. But you deal with LINQ query and don’t worry about parsing XML.