Recursively walking the DOM of an XMLNode or XMLDocument

The following two overloaded shared functions (static methods) can be used to either return a list of all nodes in an XMLDocument or walk the DOM of an XMLNode and return a string representation of it. The first function "DisplayXMLNodes(ByVal xmlStr As String) As String" makes use of the second function "DisplayXMLNodes(ByVal xmlNode As XmlNode, ByVal indent As Integer) As String" which calls itself recursively.

    ' This function will return a list of all the nodes and values in an XML Document.
    Public Shared Function DisplayXMLNodes(ByVal xmlStr As String) As String
        Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument

        If xmlStr.Trim <> "" Then
            xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlStr)
            'We don't care about the whitespace elements being displayed
            xmlDoc.PreserveWhitespace = False
            'Call DisplayNodeInformation
            Return DisplayXMLNodes(xmlDoc, 0) & vbCrLf
        Else
            Return ""
        End If
    End Function

    'This recursive function will walk the DOM of an XMLNode and return a string representation of it.
    Public Shared Function DisplayXMLNodes(ByVal xmlNode As XmlNode, ByVal indent As Integer) As String
        Dim results As String = ""
        Dim childNode As XmlNode

        If xmlNode.Name.StartsWith("#") Then
            results &= xmlNode.Value
        Else
            results = results & vbCrLf & Space(indent) & xmlNode.Name & ": "
        End If
        For Each childNode In xmlNode.ChildNodes
            results = results & DisplayXMLNodes(childNode, indent + 3)
        Next
        Return results
    End Function