<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Examine>
  <Categories>
    <name text="test"/>
    <name test="test2"/>
    <name text="test3"/>
    <name text="test4"/>
  </Categories>
</Examine>

public class XmlValue
{
    public System.Xml.Linq.XElement Element { get; set; }


    public string Text
    {
        get
        {
            if (Element == null) return null;
            return Element.Value;
        }
    }
}

public class XmlParser
{
    public List<XmlValue> Getxml()
    {
        XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(@"D:Web Utf-8 ConverterCategories.xml");

        var list = xdoc.Descendants("Categories").SelectMany(p => p.Elements("name")).Select(e => new XmlValue {Element = e}).ToList();

        var listing = list.ToList();
        return listing;
    }
}