Hi John,

As for the Navigation and xpath locating issue, I suggest you provide a 
test xml document and tell us which node you want to locate and modify. 
thus, we can perform some test based on that.

Sincerely,

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>From: =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obiBT?= <js162@n...>
>Subject: Re: xpathnavigator.setvalue error
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:44:00 -0800

>Thanks, 
>
>I'm having a problem trying to navugate with it:
>
>I'm reading an XMLDocument in from a file:
>
>        Dim document As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument()
>        document.Load("ChimneyFire.xml")
>        Dim navigator As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator()
>
>        Dim manager As XmlNamespaceManager = New 
>XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable)
>        manager.AddNamespace("IncidentDetails", 
>"http://www.fire.gov.uk/schemas/Incident")
>
>I then need to change the value of an element several levels down
>
>I think the XPath expression is something like:
>"/IncidentDetails:Incident/IncidentDetails:Identifier" _
>        & "/IncidentDetails:FRSIncidentNumber"
>
>I can't see how to get the position of the navigator to move to the right 
>place.
>
>
>
>