C# read/write xml

Works beautifuly, thanks, just one more question; what are the implications of having some pages that will have to read the counters all the time and other pages that will need to write the xml, will that cause problems? I mean constant and simultaneous read/write out of the same file?

Thanks once again.

Here's some straightforward code which should do what you want:

using System;
using System.Xml;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
       XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
       doc.Load("john.xml"); // load xml file
       XmlNode baseNode = doc.DocumentElement; // get 'Base' node which is the root
       string searchName = "John"; // look for child node named 'John'
       XmlNode childNode = baseNode[searchName]; // get child node               
       XmlAttribute attribute = childNode.Attributes[0]; // get first and only attribute    

       // display name and value of attribute to console
       Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", attribute.Name);
       Console.WriteLine("Value: {0}", attribute.Value);

       // add one to value and over-write file with amended document
       attribute.Value = (int.Parse(attribute.Value) + 1).ToString();
       doc.Save("john.xml");

       // press return to end program
       Console.ReadLine();
    }    
}