I've tried:'//myns:Name' and that would seem to be correct, but I can find no way of setting myns to resolve to "http://www.myproject.ox.ac.uk/MyProject"; in
Did you try including xmlns:myns="http://www.myproject.ox.ac.uk/MyProject"; in your XQuery expression? I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a try. thanks, bryan
