Using XPathNavigator to select single node
Public Class Example6 Shared Sub Main Dim doc As System.Xml.XmlDocument Dim editor As System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator doc = New System.Xml.XmlDocument() doc.Load("pubs.xml") editor = doc.CreateNavigator.SelectSingleNode("/pubs/publishers[@pub_id='0736']/@pub_name") editor.SetValue("new value") doc.Save("output.xml") End Sub End Class