title: Ternary Operator Simplification : Remove Repitition
body: <p>Curiously, is there a shorter way to write this in one line without having to reference the node twice?  I find myself doing a lot of these in parsing.   </p>
  
  <pre><code>lidID.idCountry = (passportnode.Descendants("COUNTRY").First().Value != String.Empty) ?
                        passportnode.Descendants("COUNTRY").First().Value :
                        "NONE"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or is the simplest way to make a temp variable for the value?</p>