XML Galore: Replacement for INI files

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Originally posted by donut
i managed to convert that code in to vb.net, and got it to work, although i'm having problems reading from an xml file that's structured like this:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<Users>
  <User1>
    <Category1>
      <Account1 Username="blah" Password="mypass1" />
      <Account2 Username="abc123" Password="mypass2" />
    </Category1>
    <Category2>
      <Account1 Username="dfgs" Password="dfgdrtgre" />
    <Category2>
  </User1>
  <User2>
    <Category1>
      <Account1 Username="ertret" Password="cvbghgf" />
    </Category1
  </User2
</Users>

first of all, it would seem that you can't have two parent nodes with the same name, even if they have seperate parent nodes themselves. secondly, i haven't a clue how to read/write to that. can anyone help?

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<Users>
<User1>
<Category1>
<Account1 Username="blah" Password="mypass1" />
<Account2 Username="abc123" Password="mypass2" />
</Category1>
<Category2>
<Account1 Username="dfgs" Password="dfgdrtgre" />
<Category2>
</User1>
<User2>
<Category1>
<Account1 Username="ertret" Password="cvbghgf" />
</Category1>
</User2>
</Users>