Reading multi level XML tags using VB.NET

Question

Hello, I want to read the XML file using VB.NET. This XML file contains tags which are nested multi level. Following is the listing of my code to read the XML file. I am not able to retrieve the value of auth-title tag. Dim reader As XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader("D:\Project\ReadXMLTest\Books1.xml") reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None Dim a1 As New ArrayList Dim Title As String Dim firstName As String Dim lastName As String Dim authTitle As String Dim Price As Double reader.ReadStartElement() While Not reader.LocalName.Equals("bookstore") reader.Read() While Not reader.LocalName.Equals("book") Dim elementName As String = reader.LocalName 'reader.Read() Dim data As String = reader.ReadString If elementName.Equals("title") Then Title = data Response.Write(Title & "
") End If If elementName.Equals("auth-title") Then authTitle = data Response.Write(authTitle & "
") End If If elementName.Equals("first-name") Then firstName = data Response.Write(firstName & "
") End If If elementName.Equals("last-name") Then lastName = data Response.Write(lastName & "
") End If If elementName.Equals("price") Then Price = data Response.Write(Price & "

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") End If reader.Read() End While reader.Read() End While Following is the XML file Mr. Hitesh Kapadia 8.99 Mr. Jay Kakar 11.99 Mr. Vijay Chandra 9.99