How to I use TryParse in a linq query of xml data?

Question

I\'m working with in memory xml of daily stock market data, and I\'m getting the value \"8/221/19055\" for one of the dates. I see that TryParse is likely my best bet to che

Answer 1

Datetime somedate;

if(DateTime.TryParse(datetotest, out somedate)
{

     code for using date goes here

}