Using Extension Methods To Avoid XML Problems

Rama Krishna Vavilala

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17 May 2010CPOL

I will just make it a little more compact by omitting the Contains method:public static string GetValue(this XElement root, string name, string defaultValue) { return (string)root.Elements(name).FirstOrDefault() ?? defaultValue; }The explicit operators for XElement...

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You can avoid all of this by using the explicit cast operators:public XElement Element{ set { this.MyVar1 = (string)value.Element("MyVar1") ?? "NO VALUE"; this.MyVar2 = (string)value.Element("MyVar2") ?? "NOVAL"; }}Both XElement and XAttribute define...

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