populating object collection property with Linq

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Published on 2010-03-16T11:13:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 11:16 UTC
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I have an XML structure that has many doc nodes, and each node may have zero or more extract paragraphs (paras).

<doc>   
    <docitem>3</docitem>
    <docid>129826</docid>
    <doctitle>sample title</doctitle>
    <docdatetime>2009-07-03T16:59:00</docdatetime>
    <collectdatetime>2009-07-03T16:59:23</collectdatetime>
    <summary>
        <summarytext>sample summary</summarytext>
    </summary>
    <paras>
        <paraitemcount>2</paraitemcount>
        <para>
            <paraitem>1</paraitem>
            <paratext>sample text 1</paratext>
        </para>
        <para>
            <paraitem>2</paraitem>
            <paratext>sample text 2</paratext>
        </para>
    </paras>
</doc>
<doc>
...
</doc>

I also has some Linq code to populate some Document objects:

List<Document> documentsList = (from doc in xmlDocument.Descendants("doc")
                                select new Document
                                {
                                    DocId = doc.Element("docid").Value,
                                    DocTitle = doc.Element("doctitle").Value,
                                    DocDateTime = DateTime.Parse(doc.Element("docdate").Value),
                                    DocSummary = doc.Element("summary").Value,
                                    DocParas = "" ///missing code to populate List<string>                                  

                                    }
                                ).ToList<Document>();

Is it possible add all the paras nodes into the Document.DocParas List<string> using Linq and Xpath, or should I do this task in a different way?

Note: I'm using .NET C# 3.5

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