Read the XML document element (elementName) at a given URL (url). Allows for encoding problems.

GetXmlElementFromUrl.cs

public string GetXmlElementFromUrl(string url, string elementName)
{
	byte[] data;
	using (var webClient = new WebClient())
		data = webClient.DownloadData(url);

	string str = Encoding.GetEncoding("Windows-1252").GetString(data);
	XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Parse(str);
	var donation = new Donation();

	var xElementAmount = xmlDoc.Element(elementName);
	if (xElementAmount != null) return xElementAmount.Value;
	return string.Empty;
}