Below is the area wher i face prob. cant seem to figure out y i cant retrieve the other nodes. from the xml file right below it the codes below.

For Each animalChild As XmlElement In eAnimal.ChildNodes
                ' print out the child element of each animalchild
                Console.Out.WriteLine(animalChild.Name + " = " + animalChild.FirstChild.Value)
            Next
        Next

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE BlastOutput PUBLIC "-//NCBI//NCBI BlastOutput/EN" "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dtd/NCBI_BlastOutput.dtd">
<BlastOutput>
  <BlastOutput_program>blastn</BlastOutput_program>
  <BlastOutput_version>blastn 2.2.15 [Oct-15-2006]</BlastOutput_version>
  <BlastOutput_reference>~Reference: Altschul, Stephen F., Thomas L. Madden, Alejandro A. Schaffer, ~Jinghui Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Webb Miller, and David J. Lipman (1997), ~&quot;Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search~programs&quot;, Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.</BlastOutput_reference>
  <BlastOutput_db>refseq_rna</BlastOutput_db>
  <BlastOutput_query-ID>lcl|1_0</BlastOutput_query-ID>
  <BlastOutput_query-def>target:Porcine:AFFX-Ss_Gapdh_5_at; affx|AFFX-Ss_Gapdh_5; </BlastOutput_query-def>
  <BlastOutput_query-len>430</BlastOutput_query-len>
  <BlastOutput_param>
    <Parameters>
      <Parameters_expect>10</Parameters_expect>
      <Parameters_sc-match>1</Parameters_sc-match>
      <Parameters_sc-mismatch>-3</Parameters_sc-mismatch>
      <Parameters_gap-open>5</Parameters_gap-open>
      <Parameters_gap-extend>2</Parameters_gap-extend>
      <Parameters_filter>F</Parameters_filter>
    </Parameters>
  </BlastOutput_param>
</BlastOutput>