The alert-service-start function (AlertListXml in the SOAP API) retrieves a nodeset consisting of all existing user alerts, as shown in the following C# example:
AlertListXml alist = new AlertListXml(); XmlElement el = port.AlertListXml(alist); if (el != null && el.ChildNodes != null) foreach (XmlNode node in el.ChildNodes) { }
This example illustrates a simple way of walking through all of the alerts that are returned by this function.