I've chosen the title here as my problem is I need to get the Item nodes mentioned in the example.
I have the following XML and am having problems using LINQ to query it, I've been able to parse XML before - however I've been stuck on this for hours and hope someone can help.
Here is my XML data below (example data):

```xml
<a:entry
    xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <a:id>98765</a:id>
    <info>Data Catalogue</info>
    <data>
        <items>
            <item>
                <id>123456</id>
                <value>Item One</value>
            </item>
            <item>
                <id>654321</id>
                <value>Item Two</value>
            </item>
        </items>
    </data>
    <items>
        <item>
            <id>123456</id>
            <value>Item One</value>
        </item>
        <item>
            <id>654321</id>
            <value>Item Two</value>
        </item>
    </items>
    <a:author>
        <a:name>Catalogue</a:name>
    </a:author>
</a:entry>

```

I want to be able to extract the ID from the Item XML tag under Items, however there is an Items Tag with Item entries under data I DO NOT want these nodes at all - I want root/items/id/id if this were expressed as path. I've tried everything I know with LINQ so if someone could help, things to note although this is sample data it is based on the system - the format cannot be changed so that is not an acceptable solution.  

I can't seem to determine where I'm going wrong - every LINQ expression I try returns nothing, I think the namespace is an issue and have tried to integrate this but I'm going in circles.  

Solution must work in Silverlight and C#

I have tried the following:

```cs
IEnumerable<XElement> nodes =
    element.Elements().Where(e => e.Name.LocalName == "items")

```

However this gets me all the "items" including the ones under "data" I don't want those.

---

If I do the following on my XML I do see the Names of the Elements displayed:

```cs
XElement element = XElement.Parse(data);
foreach (XElement node in element.Elements())
{
  MessageBox.Show(node.Name.LocalName);
}

```

However when I do this I cannot see the node names under items at all - I've checked the XElement and it does have the node and when I output the names above it "items" shows up along with info and id!

```cs
foreach (XElement node in element.Elements("items"))
{
  MessageBox.Show(node.Name.LocalName);
}

```