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Why doesn’t System.Xml.XmlReader.GetAttribute(String) throw an exception if the attribute is not found?! It seems ridiculous and dangerous at first sight.
Because there’s nothing “exceptional” about not finding a specified attribute. What if it’s optional? Would you then be relying on thrown exceptions to control your program flow?
This isn’t good practice – you should simply check the return value for null before using it.