Xml problem in finding a particular element when reading

Hello,

There can be many ways. You can use XMLDocument class for all sorts of reading and I think XMLDocument is a wonderful class. I have modified your function, just replace the path for your XML File or if you have your XML in a tring you can use doc.LoadXML() function instead of doc.Load()

There can be other ways also, for example you can use doc.SelectNodes() with an XPath Expression to select nodes instead of doc.GetElementByTagName().

I hope the Following function will serve your purpose

Public Function IsCountryInXmlFile(ByVal countryName As String) As Boolean Dim doc As New XmlDocument Dim nodeList As XmlNodeList Try doc.Load("C:\\doc.xml") nodeList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("Name") For Each node As XmlNode In nodeList If node.FirstChild.Value = countryName Then Return True End If Next Return False Catch ex As Exception End Try End Function

Regards,
Aleem

The easiest way would be to use an XmlDocument and then just go
XmlNode TmpNode = XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("//Country[Name='" + CountryToFind + "'");
if (TmpNode==null) { return false; } else { return true; }

My original post does what you need to do.
It returns the node. To access attributes you would go
The easiest way would be to use an XmlDocument and then just go
public XmlNode FindCountry(String CountryToFind)
{
XmlNode TmpNode = XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("//Country[Name='" + CountryToFind + "'");
/// if (TmpNode==null) { return false; } else { return true; }
return TmpNode;
}
XmlNode Country = FindCountry("USA");
if (Country==null) { return; } // we didn't find the country
MessageBox.Show("Your country has an id of " + Country["ID"].InnerText + ".");