//I dont seem to find the DESC element mentioned in you recent post, hence am caryying forward it
        // with below XML only. Lets say you want to delete the element having name="WIN"
        string mySchedules = "<showschedule>" +
                              "<fall name=\"FAL\" text=\"Y\" index=\"3\"/>" +
                              "<spring name=\"SPR\" text=\"Y\" index=\"2\"/>" +
                              "<winter name=\"WIN\" text=\"Y\" index=\"1\"/>" +
                              "<summer name=\"SUM\" text=\"Y\" index=\"4\"/>" +
                          "</showschedule>";

        XElement xShows = XElement.Parse(mySchedules);

        IEnumerable<XElement> singleSchedule = from s in xShows.Descendants()
                                               where ((string)s.Attribute("name").Value.ToLower()).Equals("win")
                                               select s;

        singleSchedule.Remove();

        string myOutput = xShows.ToString();

        ///*
        // It will give you output as ::see the text of Winter.::
        // *
        // *                  <showschedule>
        //                      <fall name="FAL" text="Y" index="3"/>
        //                      <spring name="SPR" text="Y" index="2"/>
        //                      <summer name="SUM" text="Y" index="4"/>
        //                  </showschedule>
        // *

        // */