JoeKatz@g... wrote:

> This is all being done in .NET.  I'm using an xmldocument and I load
> XML into it that i received back from a web service.  Below is a
> "section" of that chunk of xml.  Now for each section i use the
> xmld.selectnodes("/xmlhistory/violation") to create an xmlnodelist for
> all the chunks that are "violation" nodes.  Once I have that into an
> xmlnodelist , i iterate through them using for each xmlnode in
> xmlnodelist. Inside this for loop i'm gathering the values of each tag
> and creating a nice html table that will later be stored. Now once
> inside this for loop i'm running into an issue.  In some cases this xml
> below will have additional fields such as <disposition> but sometimes
> it won't.  How can I check while in this for loop if the tag of
> <disposition> is present.  

SelectNodes and SelectSingleNode is not only a method of the XML 
document (XmlDocument) object but also of any node so for that node in 
your for each loop you can call e.g. (C#)
   XmlNodeList dispositions = node.SelectNodes("disposition");
and process those elements with another loop or of course, if you expect 
only one disposition element or are interested only in the first 
disposition element then e.g.
   XmlElement disposition = node.SelectSingleNode("disposition") as 
XmlElement;
   if (disposition != null) {
     // now use element node here
   }
   else {
     // do what you want to do if there is no dispositon
   }

 > If it is I want to ( _disposition =
> xmlnode.Item("disposition").InnerText ) grab the value , if its not I
> want to ignore that tag all together.  

That is another possibility the .NET DOM offers, indexing by name e.g.
   if (node["disposition"] != null) {
     // use node["disposition"].InnerText
   }

If you use VB.NET then it should be alike
   If Not node.Item("disposition") Is Nothing Then
     ' use node.Item("disposition").InnerText
   End If

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