Call me lazy, but I'm always looking for an easier way to get things done. Not too long ago, I did a tip on how you can easily locate a node in a document tree using Visual Basic and Microsoft's XML parser. With thanks to one of our readers, here is another way to do the same thing:

Set nodes = item.getElementsbyTagName("description")
If nodes.length > 0 Then
'Do one thing
Else
'Do another
End If