Rather than use the Load or Parse methods, you can build an X-DOM tree by manually instantiating objects and adding them to a parent via XContainer ’s Add method.

To construct an XElement and XAttribute, you simply provide a name and value:

	XElement lastName = new XElement ("lastname", "Bloggs");
	lastName.Add (new XComment ("nice name"));

	XElement customer = new XElement ("customer");
	customer.Add (new XAttribute ("id", 123));
	customer.Add (new XElement ("firstname", "Joe"));
	customer.Add (lastName);

	Console.WriteLine (customer.ToString());

The result:

	<customer id="123">
	  <firstname>Joe</firstname>
	  <lastname>Bloggs<!--nice name -></lastname>
	</customer>

A value is optional when constructing an XElement—you can provide just the element name and add content later. Notice that when we did provide a value, a simple string sufficed— we didn’t need to explicitly create and add an XText child node. The X-DOM does this work automatically, so you can deal simply with “values.”