There is a similar question, but it seems that the solution didn\'t work out in my case: Weirdness with XDocument, XPath and namespaces
Here is the XML I am working
you can use the example from Microsoft - for you without namespace:
using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Xml.XPath; var e = xdoc.XPathSelectElement("./Report/ReportInfo/Name");
should do it