using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace LinqToRSS
{
 public static class LanguageExtender
 {
     public static string SafeValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? string.Empty : input.Value;
     }

     public static DateTime SafeDateValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? DateTime.MinValue : DateTime.Parse(input.Value);
     }
 }

 public class RssEntry
 {
     public string Title { set; get; }
     public string Description { set; get; }
     public string Link { set; get; }
     public DateTime PublicationDate { set; get; }
     public string Author { set; get; }
     public string BlogName { set; get; }
     public string BlogAddress { set; get; }
 }

 public class Rss
 {
     static XElement selectDate(XElement date1, XElement date2)
     {
         return date1 ?? date2;
     }

     public static List<RssEntry> GetEntries(string feedUrl)
     {
         //applying namespace in an XElement
         XName xn = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}creator");//{namespace}root
         XName xn2 = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}date");

         var feed = XDocument.Load(feedUrl);
         if (feed.Root == null) return null;

         var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");
         var feedQuery =
             from item in items
             select new RssEntry
                        {
                            Title = item.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            Description = item.Element("description").SafeValue(),
                            Link = item.Element("link").SafeValue(),
                            PublicationDate =
                                selectDate(item.Element(xn2), item.Element("pubDate")).SafeDateValue(),
                            Author = item.Element(xn).SafeValue(),
                            BlogName = item.Parent.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            BlogAddress = item.Parent.Element("link").SafeValue()
                        };

         return feedQuery.ToList();
     }
 }

 class Program
 {
     static void Main(string[] args)
     {
         List<RssEntry> entries = Rss.GetEntries("http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rss.aspx");
         if (entries != null)
             foreach (var item in entries)
                 Console.WriteLine(item.Title);

         Console.WriteLine("Press a key...");
         Console.ReadKey();
     }
 }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">
<channel>
 <title>Latest Microsoft Blogs</title>
 <link>http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/default.aspx</link>
 <description />
 <dc:language>en</dc:language>
 <generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)</generator>
 <item>
   <title>Comments on my recent benchmarks.</title>
   <link>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/</link>
   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:33:59 GMT</pubDate>
   <guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:7166225</guid>
   <dc:creator>Misfit Geek: msft</dc:creator>
   <slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
   <wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7166225</wfw:commentRss>
   <comments>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/#comments</comments>
   <description>Overall I’ve been pretty impressed ...</description>
   <category domain="http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category>
 </item>
</channel>
</rss>

var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");

XName.Get("{mynamespace}root");
//or
XName.Get("root", "mynamespace");