XPathNavigator.SelectSingleNode selects a single node in the XPathNavigator
Imports System Imports System.Xml Imports System.Xml.XPath Public Class MainClass Public Shared Sub Main() Dim document As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument("domainBooks.xml") Dim navigator As XPathNavigator = document.CreateNavigator() Dim manager As XmlNamespaceManager = New XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable) manager.AddNamespace("bk", "http://www.domain.com/books") Dim node As XPathNavigator = navigator.SelectSingleNode("//bk:title", manager) Console.WriteLine(node.InnerXml) End Sub End Class