private XmlNodeList GetXml(string url)
{
// given a url, retrieves the xml result set and returns the nodelist of Item objects
WebGrabber grabber = new WebGrabber(url)
{
MaxRetries = 10,
Timeout = 5000,
TimeoutIncrement = 1000,
Encoding = Encoding.UTF8
};
return grabber.GetResponse() ? grabber.GetXML() : null;
}