read xml using its index??

[barunkonwar]

i`m a vb.net baginner using 2008v.
i`m using the books.xml for practise
..i.e
- <bookstore>
- <book genre="autobiography">
<title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
- <author>
<first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
<last-name>Franklin</last-name>
</author>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
- <book genre="novel">
<title>The Confidence Man</title>
- <author>
<first-name>Herman</first-name>
<last-name>Melville</last-name>
</author>
<price>11.99</price>
</book>
- <book genre="philosophy">
<title>The Gorgias</title>
- <author>
<name>Plato</name>
</author>
<price>9.99</price>
</book>
</bookstore>





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can u let me know how to feed the data .. of 1.author name and 2.title in a listview of vb.net....also can you suggest some method to access the nodes using its index no..like if we hav the root node as "book" than how can we get to the third child node(if it exixts) of the "book" using the indexno..also to feed the obtained data in a list view...