XML reader question

[Matt Nunnally]

I'm using XmlReader to read an XMl String such as this one:

<XML_REQUEST>
<USER_ID>Admin</USER_ID>
<USER_PW>Test123%</USER_PW>
<COMMAND>1</COMMAND>
<PRESENT_FLAG>1</PRESENT_FLAG>
<INVOICE></INVOICE>
<TRANS_AMOUNT>6.00</TRANS_AMOUNT>
</XML_REQUEST>

You can see that there is an empty tag on invoice.

I'm reading the string like this:

 while (reader.Read())
          {
            switch (reader.NodeType)
            {
              //write start element
              case XmlNodeType.Element:
                 /// some other cases up here
                default:
                      localname = reader.LocalName;
                      reader.Read();
                      localvalue = reader.Value;
                      if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(reader.Value) == false)
                      {
                          writer.WriteStartElement(localname);
                          writer.WriteString(localvalue);
                          writer.WriteEndElement();
                      }
                    break;
 
 

Is there any way to tell if the value is going to be empty before I call the reader.Read() in bold. Its screwing up the reading of the next value in trans amount. I tried reader.HasValue but that didn't work

[Shashi Sadasivan]

have you tried
reader.InnerText or reader.innerXML ?

[Matt Nunnally]

have you tried
reader.InnerText or reader.innerXML ?

I don't see those properties on the reader.

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Wooops....
Sorry about that one....
My mistake....
its a property of XMLNode....(which is a part of DOM)

I havent looked at the SAX Model in .Net yet...
Hope someone else could help you with that (i will try to look at it later on)