Dim StrXml As String = "c:\response.xml" 'Create Xml Dom Instance Dim ODoc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument Dim ONodeList As XmlNodeList Dim oNode As XmlNode ODoc.Load(StrXml) ' Problem seems to be below Dim nsmgr As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(ODoc.NameTable) nsmgr.AddNamespace("junk", "http://www.connectpas.com/webservice/0-20041220") ONodeList = ODoc.SelectNodes("/junk:Message/junk:Response/junk:Status", nsmgr) MsgBox(ONodeList.Count) ' =0 So ONodelist is not getting populated?HTH,