XML to LINQ with Checking Null Elements

Question

The situation I am faced with is parsing an XML document into an object using Linq. During the parse I am checking to make sure Elements are not null before proceeding to p

Answer 1

You can replace

x.Element("nodeName") != null : int.Parse(x.Element("nodeName").Value) : 0

with

(int)x.Element("nodeName")

It works for string, int, double, decimal, bool, uint, DateTime and Nullable of those as well.