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copied!<p>Do you assume that the <code>nodeSet</code> contains the “Root” element because the debugger displays its string representation as <code>Position=0, Current={Root}</code>? That may be misleading; the reason that the “Root” element appears is because the <code>XPathNodeIterator</code> (which is the actual type returned by <code>Evaluate</code> in your case) has not yet been positioned on the first node resulting from the query. Per the MSDN documentation for <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xpath.xpathnodeiterator.aspx" rel="nofollow"><code>XPathNodeIterator</code></a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>An <code>XPathNodeIterator</code> object returned by the <code>XPathNavigator</code> class is not positioned on the first node in a selected set of nodes. A call to the <code>MoveNext</code> method of the <code>XPathNodeIterator</code> class must be made to position the <code>XPathNodeIterator</code> object on the first node in the selected set of nodes.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>You can retrieve your path items by iterating over your <code>nodeSet</code>:</p> <pre><code>XDocument document = XDocument.Load("someXML"); XPathNavigator navigator = document.CreateNavigator(); XPathExpression expression = XPathExpression.Compile("//*[@test]"); XPathNodeIterator nodeSet = (XPathNodeIterator)navigator.Evaluate(expression); foreach (XPathItem item in nodeSet) { // Process item here } </code></pre> <p>Or, if you want them converted to an array:</p> <pre><code>XDocument document = XDocument.Load("someXML"); XPathNavigator navigator = document.CreateNavigator(); XPathExpression expression = XPathExpression.Compile("//*[@test]"); XPathNodeIterator nodeSet = (XPathNodeIterator)navigator.Evaluate(expression); XPathItem[] items = nodeSet.Cast<XPathItem>().ToArray(); </code></pre>

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