Reading xml ref attribute in .NET

I can do this in Xpath, but unfortunately for this particular project I am unable to use xpath.

I have the following node selected:

<client href="http://somewebsitehere.com" rel="needthisdata"></client>


clientnode.Attributes["href"].Value 

correctly returns "http://somewebsitehere.com", but

clientnode.Attributes["rel"].Value

does not work?

What am I doing wrong here?

Full Usage:

foreach (XmlNode clientnode in clientnodelist)
{
    Message开发者_Python百科Box.Show(clientnode.Attributes["rel"].Value);
}

The above gives a NullReferenceException, whereas replacing "rel" with "href" works fine.

I'm sure i've selected the correct node as well as innertext matches, as well as attribute.count returning 2.

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Read your code. You are using clientnode as the loop variable, but you are referencing selectednode.

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What if one particular node doesn't have a "rel" attribute? NullReferenceException.

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I would add a break at the loop and take a look at what is in my Attributes collection. Also, for kicks, try changing "rel" to something else to see if it fixes the issue.