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Hi 
 
From your XML file shown here re-formatted.
<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41755880-1">&lt;File&gt;
 &lt;FileHeader&gt;&lt;/FileHeader&gt;
 &lt;CDRs&gt;
 &lt;Call&gt;
 &lt;RoutingInfo&gt;
 &lt;/RoutingInfo&gt;
 &lt;/Call&gt;
 &lt;Call&gt; &lt;/Call&gt;
 &lt;/CDRs&gt;
 &lt;FileFooter&gt;&lt;/FileFooter&gt;
&lt;/File&gt;
</code></pre>
Using Linq to XML you can get a list of values from your document so that you do not have to loop through the nodes. The question is what values do you want to have returned to you, for example will they have Attributes or just inner text and which ones you want back? For the Call nodes it would be desirable to have attributes and not inner text because if you return the inner &nbsp;text of those that have child elements the text from the child elements will also be in the Call node value. &nbsp;This would not be the case for the RoutingInfo nodes because they do not have children. 
 
To your question, &quot;how can i check if the calls node has subnotes since that is not always the case&quot;, Linq to XML has a method HasElements which returns a Boolean if it has True and False for no. The following code snippet show one way to do what you need.
<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41755880-2">'' Load the XML into memory from the file system
Dim xdoc = XDocument.Load(&quot;Data.xml&quot;)
'' Get all the Call nodes with children if they have any
Dim results = (From n In xdoc.Root.Descendants(&quot;Call&quot;)
 Select New With {
 .CallVal = n.Attribute(&quot;value&quot;).Value,
 .HasChildren = n.HasElements
 }).ToList
</code></pre>
Using the Following XML document.
<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41755880-3">&lt;File&gt;
 &lt;FileHeader&gt;&lt;/FileHeader&gt;
 &lt;CDRs&gt;
 &lt;Call value=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
 &lt;RoutingInfo&gt;
 	Routing Value
 &lt;/RoutingInfo&gt;
 &lt;/Call&gt;
 &lt;Call value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/Call&gt;
 &lt;/CDRs&gt;
 &lt;FileFooter&gt;&lt;/FileFooter&gt;
&lt;/File&gt;
</code></pre>
From Visual Studio the results look like the following.<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/08_w34/1111527/Voila_Capture-2016-08-14_11-23-18_PM.png" target="_blank" title="How the results look like (19 KB)"><img alt="How the results look like" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 487px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/08_w34/1111527/Voila_Capture-2016-08-14_11-23-18_PM.png" /></a>
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I am a bit confused here, for one or the other reason neither my or your code works against my file.. 
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/08_w34/1111617/sample2.xml" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="Sample file which fails to process (7 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>sample2.xml</a>
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sample2.xml

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Thanks, that somewhat proofs why my code didn't work. But i &nbsp;don't want to use Linq or datasets since i have existing logic which handles my parsing. The only problem is it doesn't work with namespace. 
So what do i have to do to be able to pretty much read my XML file, and get all Call nodes so i can process them and find subnodes etc.
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Please see your other post.
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Hi Alex; 
 
To your statement, &quot;&nbsp;But i &nbsp;don't want to use Linq or datasets since i have existing logic which handles my parsing&quot;, this was not stated in this question and therefore you got a generalized code that would do the job. Seeming you now know why my code snippet gave you issues was with the Xml Namespace that was not stated in the original question but once you posted the actual schema of the XML the updated code snippet solved the issue. 
 
Please close this question with the solution that worked and if you still have issues with the more specific code please post in the other question you have on this subject. 
 
Thank you and have a great day.
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Ok below is a rough layout of my file i am trying to parse. I was wondering how i can loop thru all Call elements /node in the CDR's 
to extract its values. Also how can i check if the calls node has subnotes since that is not always the case. to make it more clear i attached the complete sample data &nbsp; 
 
&lt;File&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;FileHeader&gt;&lt;/FileHeader&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;CDRs&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Call&gt;&lt;RoutingInfo&gt;&lt;/RoutingInfo&gt; &lt;/Call&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Call&gt; &lt;/Call&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;/CDRs&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;FileFooter&gt;&lt;/FileFooter&gt; 
&lt;/File&gt;
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Ok below is a rough layout of my file i am trying to parse. I was wondering how i can loop thru all Call elements /node in the CDR's
to extract its values. Also how can i check if the calls node has subnotes since that is not always the case. to make it more clear i attached the complete sample data 

<File>
 <FileHeader></FileHeader>
 <CDRs>
 <Call><RoutingInfo></RoutingInfo> </Call>
 <Call> </Call>
 </CDRs>
 <FileFooter></FileFooter>
</File>

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