Trying to remove an xml tag

[Programming2007]

I am trying to remove a whole element but instead am just removing its attributes. For example my code will take the tag: <item key="dbName" value="TESTdb" /> and after removeall it leaves it as: <item />.
I want the item tag totally erased. How do I do this? Here is the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<sections>
<comment> ***** All settings are CaSe SeNsItIvE ***** </comment>
<section name="ApplicationCABS">
<item />
<item key="dbSchema" value="xxxx" />
<item />
<item key="dbBadTable" value="xxxx" />
<item key="dbGoodTable" value="xxxx" />
<item key="dbName" value="xxxxx" />
<item key="badSID" value="xxxxx" />
</section>
<section name="ApplicationDUF">
<item key="dbSchema" value="yyyy" />
<item />
<item key="dbName" value="yyyy" />
<item key="dbBadTable" value="yyyy" />
<item key="dbGoodTable" value="yyyy" />
</section>
<section name="Application">
<item />
<item key="badSID" value="zzz" />
<item key="goodSID" value="zzz" />
<item key="dbName" value="zzz" />
<item key="dbPassword" value="zzz" />
<item key="dbSchema" value="zzz" />
<item key="dbBadTable" value="zzz" />
<item key="dbGoodTable" value="zzz" />
</section>
</sections>


Here is the code:
Dim NodebadSID_cab As Xml.XmlNode = document.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("//sections/section[1]/item[@key='badSID']")
document.DocumentElement.ParentNode.RemoveChild(NodebadSID_cab)


I also tried this:
Dim navigator As Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator()
navigator.MoveToRoot()
'Move to the first child node (comment field).
navigator.MoveToFirstChild()

'nav = navigator.SelectSingleNode("//section")
If navigator.NodeType = Xml.XPath.XPathNodeType.Element Then
'If children exist.
If navigator.HasChildren Then

'Move to the first child.
navigator.MoveToFirstChild()

Do
Dim nodeBlankItem As Xml.XmlNode
If (document.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("//sections/section[1]/item").Value = "") Then
Try
nodeBlankItem = document.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("//sections/section[1]//item")
document.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("//sections/section[1]//item").RemoveChild(nodeBlankItem)
Catch ex As Exception

End Try
End If

Loop While navigator.MoveToNext()
End If
End If

I tried this too:

'Dim objNodeList As Xml.XmlNodeList = document.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//sections/section[1]/item")
'Dim node As XmlNode
'For Each node In objNodeList
'document.DocumentElement.RemoveChild(node)
next


Does anyone know how I can delete the entire item tag when the item tag does not have any attributes with this xml file???

 

[cjelec]

Have you tried:

 NodebadSID_cab.RemoveAll()

 

[Programming2007]

That was the first thing that I tried.