SelectSingleNode always returns null?

Question

Taking this simplifed example of my XML:

Answer 1

You're missing the XML namespace defined by the node in your SelectSingleNode call. Assuming oss is an XmlDocument instance, you need to do this:

XmlNamespaceManager nsMgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(oss.NameTable);
nsMgr.AddNamespace("ns", "http://www.mydomain.com/MyDataFeed");

XmlNode errorNode = oss.SelectSingleNode("/ns:message/ns:error", nsMgr);

Marc