Check if XML Element exists

Question

How can someone validate that a specific element exists in an XML file? Say I have an ever changing XML file and I need to verify every element exists before reading/parsing

Answer 1

//if the problem is "just" to verify that the element exist in the xml-file before you //extract the value you could do like this

XmlNodeList YOURTEMPVARIABLE = doc.GetElementsByTagName("YOUR_ELEMENTNAME");

        if (YOURTEMPVARIABLE.Count > 0 )
        {
            doctype = YOURTEMPVARIABLE[0].InnerXml;

        }
        else
        {
            doctype = "";
        }