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; }