SelectSingleNode returning null for known good xml node path using XPath

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I strongly suspect the problem is to do with namespaces. Try getting rid of the namespace and you’ll be fine – but obviously that won’t help in your real case, where I’d assume the document is fixed.

I can’t remember offhand how to specify a namespace in an XPath expression, but I’m sure that’s the problem.

EDIT: Okay, I’ve remembered how to do it now. It’s not terribly pleasant though – you need to create an XmlNamespaceManager for it. Here’s some sample code that works with your sample document:

using System;
using System.Xml;

public class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        XmlNamespaceManager namespaces = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
        namespaces.AddNamespace("ns", "urn:hl7-org:v3");
        doc.Load("test.xml");
        XmlNode idNode = doc.SelectSingleNode("/My_RootNode/ns:id", namespaces);
        string msgID = idNode.Attributes["extension"].Value;
        Console.WriteLine(msgID);
    }
}

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