How to get XElement's value and not value of all child-nodes?

// Create the XElement
XElement parent = XElement.Parse(
    @"<parent>Hello<child>test1</child>World<child>test2</child>!</parent>");

// Make a copy
XElement temp=new XElement(parent);

// remove all elements but root
temp.RemoveNodes();

// now, do something with temp.value, e.g.
Console.WriteLine(temp.value);