Brian P wrote:

> I'm trying to read this XML document:

> <mserror:errorInfo 
> xmlns:mserror=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/soap-toolkit/faultdetail/error/\"> 

If you want to use XPath with XML documents with namespaces then you 
need to bind the prefixes you want to use to the namespace URIs used in 
the XML documents and use those prefixes in the XPath expressions.
So you can use an expression alike
   /mserror:errorInfo/mserror:returnCode
but for that to work you need to make sure that the prefix mserror is 
bound to the URI 
http://schemas.microsoft.com/soap-toolkit/faultdetail/error/.

How you bind the prefix to the URL depends on the tool you use to 
evaluate the XPath expressions, with .NET you use an XmlNamespaceManager:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlNamespaceManagerClassTopic.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlNamespaceManagerClassAddNamespaceTopic.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemXmlXmlNodeClassSelectNodesTopic2.asp>

With MSXML you need to use the method setProperty to set 
"SelectionNamespaces" as needed:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/7854c9c3-8338-4095-b6e7-3293de636aad.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/36b6439d-e4e0-42d3-baf5-6c24e17c9ed9.asp>


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