Using Xpath With Default Namespace in C#
First – you don’t need a navigator; SelectNodes / SelectSingleNode should suffice. You may, however, need a namespace-manager – for example: XmlElement el = …; //TODO XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr = new XmlNamespaceManager( el.OwnerDocument.NameTable); nsmgr.AddNamespace(“x”, el.OwnerDocument.DocumentElement.NamespaceURI); var nodes = el.SelectNodes(@”/x:outerelement/x:innerelement”, nsmgr);