Question

xml structure example:

<item>
   <title>Foo</title>
   <description>Boo</description>
   <image>Poo</image>
</item>

and my code is:

var rssFeeds =
              from feed in rssXML.Descendants("item")             
              select new
              {                  
                  Title = feed.Element("title").Value,                  
                  Description = feed.Element("description").Value,                                                                                                 
                  Image= feed.Element("image").Value, 
              };        

the question is how can I check if the “title” element exist in the code above…if not exists take some other element

Answer 1

You could use the explicit XElement to string conversion (which converts a null XElement reference to a null string reference) in conjunction with the null coalescing operator:

Title = (string) feed.Element("title") ?? (string) feed.Element("otherElement")