Removing Entries Created SPModification for Non-Default Zone

It is a well known issues that SPModification only removes entries from the default zone. What a开发者_Go百科re people using as a work around. I'm implementing something and I'd like to know how others are working around this issue.

Never had to use it (knew the issue tho) and in my book it is a combination of 2 techniques:

1- Opening the web.config based on the SPWebApplication (see AlternateUrls property for additional zones)

SPWebApplication webApp = (SPWebApplication)properties.Parent;
Configuration webconfig = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("/", webApp.Name);

2- Using good ol' XmlDocument manipulation with XPath and friends