Hi,

The behaviour is documented. See the Remarks section at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h0hw012b.aspx
Regards,
Viv

>Terrific! It now works like a charm. Once again the documentation had me all buggered up. Thanks for the correction and I am in your debt.
>
>Glenn
>
>>>I have an xml file as follows:

>>><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:gbs="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
>>>  <id>http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes</id>
>>>  <updated>2008-12-16T20:16:35.000Z</updated>
>>>  <entry>
>>>    <title type="text">Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming</title>
>>>    <gbs:embeddability value="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#not_embeddable" />
>>>    <gbs:openAccess value="http://schemas.google.com/books/2008#disabled" />
>>>    <dc:creator>Robin Dewson</dc:creator>
>>>    <dc:date>2003-08-27</dc:date>
>>>    <dc:description>By the end of this book, youll have a firm grasp of the most important SQL Serverfeatures and be able to develop your own effective database solutions.</dc:description>
>>>    <dc:format>792 pages</dc:format>
>>>    <dc:identifier>ISBN:1590592522</dc:identifier>
>>>    <dc:identifier>ISBN:9781590592526</dc:identifier>
>>>    <dc:title>Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming</dc:title>
>>>  </entry>
>>></feed>
>>>

>>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Don't use String.Empty - see changes:
>>
>>>and the following code

>>        Dim xd As New XmlDocument
>>        xd.Load(MapPath("") + "/xml.xml")
>>        Dim nsmgr As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(xd.NameTable)
>>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("xx", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
>>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("openSearch", "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/")
>>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("gbs", "http://schemas.google.com/books/2008")
>>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("dc", "http://purl.org/dc/terms")
>>        nsmgr.AddNamespace("gd", "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005")
>>       Dim oroot As XmlNode = xd.FirstChild
>>       Dim oEntry As XmlNode = oroot.SelectSingleNode("xx:entry",nsMgr)
>>

>>>
>>>oEntry is null
>>>
>>>Please help I don't seem to know what I am doing any more!!!