ok thanks. I was making some very stupid mistakes in my order of things but 
your example helped. Thanks


"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> Coaster wrote:
>
>> Actually both don't work, my mistake. I had them working when I did a 
>> SelectNodes call, I guess I'm not understanding the xpath very well
>
>
> I took your XML and added a closing tag (</Project>) to make it 
> well-formed, then run the following piece of code using your XPath 
> expressions
>
>       XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
>       xmlDocument.Load(@"file.xml");
>       XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new 
> XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDocument.NameTable);
>       namespaceManager.AddNamespace("def", 
> "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003");
>       foreach (string expression in new string[] { 
> "/def:Project/def:PropertyGroup[1]/def:OutputType/text()", 
> "def:Project/def:PropertyGroup[1]/def:AssemblyName/text()"}) {
>         Console.WriteLine("SelectSingleNode with expression \"{0}\" finds: 
> {1}.", expression, xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode(expression, 
> namespaceManager));
>       }
>
> and both expressions find a text node, output is
>
> SelectSingleNode with expression 
> "/def:Project/def:PropertyGroup[1]/def:OutputType/text()" finds: 
> System.Xml.XmlText.
> SelectSingleNode with expression 
> "def:Project/def:PropertyGroup[1]/def:AssemblyName/text()" finds: 
> System.Xml.XmlText.
>
> Make sure you use the same namespace URI in both the XML document and the 
> .NET code with its namespace manager.
>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/