is there a GetElementByTagName that handles if the tag isn't there

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Published on 2010-04-25T05:28:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 5:33 UTC
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i have the following code below but sometime the "serving_description" tag isn't there. Right now i just put a try catch around it but i wanted to find out if there was a cleaner way to handle this scenario.

   XmlElement servingElement = (XmlElement)servingNode;
            serving.Id = Convert.ToInt32(servingElement.GetElementsByTagName("serving_id")[0].InnerText);
            serving.Name = servingElement.GetElementsByTagName("serving_description")[0].InnerText;

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