I have a VB.net application using an API and getting back large amounts of XML.

In my VB I use code like this to get a list of nodes and then a FOR EACH loop to go through them...

Dim XMLNodeList as XML.XMLNodeList = XMLReply.SelectNodes("//Book")

This would get me a list of the <Book> nodes for me to play with.

This works fine.

The problem I have is that the XML returned from this one API has nodes with names like <hello:world> or <big:problem>

The words don't matter. The point is that they have colons : in them... When I now run the above code to get my list it throws a big error like this

So I am guessing I need to escape my XPATH somehow or find another way....

Any ideas anybody. I have been scratching my head on this for way too long already

Thanks in advance

Tom.

Been awhile since I played with xml, but can't you simply use a global replace on the xml returned (say "_" for ":"), before you then start selecting nodes?

Joe