XPathSelectElement always returns null

Question

Why is this Xpath not working using XDocument.XPathSelectElement?

Xpath:

//Plugin/UI[1]/PluginPageCategory[1]/Page[1]/Group[1]/CommandRef[2]
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Answer 1

There is a way to do it without any change to the xpath. The solution I've found is to remove the namespace when parsing the XML into the XDocument.

Here is an exemple:

var regex = @"(xmlns:?[^=]*=[""][^""]*[""])";
var myXDocument = XDocument.Parse(Regex.Replace("MyXmlContent", regex, "", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Multiline))

Now that the namespace is gone, it is easyer to manipulate.