Craig Buchanan wrote:

> For i As Integer = 1 To XmlDocuments.Count - 1
>     'process the <Entity/> nodes
>     For Each child As XmlNode In XmlDocuments(i).DocumentElement.ChildNodes
>         'add node to 1st XmlDocument
>         XmlDocuments(0).DocumentElement.AppendChild(XmlDocuments(0).ImportNode(child, 
> True))
>     Next
> Next

> Is there a more-efficient way to do this?  

Storing the DocumentElement in a variable once and then accessing the 
variable might perform better then referencing DocumentElement each time 
e.g.

   Dim root As XmlNode = XmlDocuments(0).DocumentElement
   For i As Integer = 1 To XmlDocuments.Count - 1
     For Each child As XmlNode In XmlDocuments(i).DocumentElement.ChildNodes
       root.AppendChild(XmlDocuments(0).ImportNode(child, True))
     Next
   Next

 > For bonus points, is there a way
> to sort the <Entity/> elements based on an attribute's value?

Sorting is possible with XSLT (i.e. xsl:sort) or with .NET also using 
XPathNavigator
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xpath.xpathexpression.addsort.aspx>

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