Can't get XmlDocument.SelectNodes to retrieve any of my nodes?

Question

I\'m trying to parse an XML document. The document in question is an AppxManifest file.

An example document looks like this:

Answer 1

Not in this particular case, but in general, if the namespace URN in the actual XML is not exactly the same as one used to add a namespace to a namespace manager (example: missing a trailing slash), and a prefix is specified in XPath, the query may return null.

If namespace URN in the XML is not reliable, syntax

"//*[local-name()='tag']" 

will work.