Yes, I was on the wrong node.  I ended up using an XPath query (selectNodes) 
to get where I wanted.

Thanks!

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Michael Salamone [eMVP]
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"Bjoern Hoehrmann" <bjoern@h...> wrote in message 
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>* Michael J. Salamone wrote in microsoft.public.xml:
>>    hr = g_pDoc->load(vtFileName, &bIsSuccess);
>>
>>    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
>>    {
>>        hr = g_pDoc->get_childNodes(&pSessionNodes);
>
> This fetches the child notes of the root node; the root note is the
> parent of the root element (<Sessions>) so this would give you the
> Sessions element which does not have a NumRecords attribute. You
> would need to query the children of the Sessions node. Consider
>
>  <?xml version='1.0'?>
>  <!-- Comment -->
>  <?xml-stylesheet ... ?>
>  <rootElement />
>
> Here the root node (also called document node) is parent of more
> than just the root element (also of the comment and the processing
> instruction following it), which should explain the difference here.
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