>Then I'd agree with Gregory. Don't bother to check whether it is populated - just set it to nothing.
>Pity you don't know the case-sensitive attribute name. If you did you could just use:

var v = oXmlDocument.SelectSingleNode(tcNode);
>      if (v == null) return false;
>
>      return v.Attributes.GetNamedItem(tcAttribute) !=null;

It is interesting. But, I need this method to be generic as it is called from various projects using various XML.