Namespace Error in XPATH Navigation (VB.NET)

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <SOAP:Envelope xmlns="

http://www.nnn/efile"

xmlns:SOAP="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

xmlns:efile="

http://www.nnn/efile"

xmlns:xsi="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/

../message/SOAP.xsd

http://www.nnn/efile

../message/efileMessage.xsd">

The offending part of the xml document is listed above. When the prefix and xmlns information is removed, the vb code works fine, otherwise, the final statement in the code that follows generates this message:

XML Exception: Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has prefix or variable or userdefined function.


shorthand version of the code follows:

Dim xpathDoc As XPathDocument
Dim xmlNav As XPathNavigator
Dim xmlNI As XPathNodeIterator

xpathDoc = New XPathDocument("c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\Test.xml")

xmlNav = xpathDoc.CreateNavigator()

xmlNI = xmlNav.Select("/SOAP:Envelope/Body/OriginManifest/ItemReference")