I'm trying to parse an Atom feed programmatically. I have the atom XML downloaded as a string. I can load the XML into an XmlDocument. However, I can't traverse the document using XPath. Whenever I try, I get null.

I've been using this Atom feed as a test: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Calling SelectSingleNode() always returns null, except for when I use "/". Here is what I'm trying right now:

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient()){    string xml = wc.DownloadString("http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default");    XmlNamespaceManager nsMngr = new XmlNamespaceManager(new NameTable());    nsMngr.AddNamespace(string.Empty, "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");    nsMngr.AddNamespace("app", "http://purl.org/atom/app#");    XmlDocument atom = new XmlDocument();    atom.LoadXml(xml);    XmlNode node = atom.SelectSingleNode("//entry/link/app:edited", nsMngr);}

I thought it might have been because of my XPath, so I've also tried a simple query of the root node since I knew the root should work:

// I've tried both with & without the nsMngr declared aboveXmlNode node = atom.SelectSingleNode("/feed");

No matter what I do, it seems like it can't select anything. Obviously I'm missing something, I just can't figure out what. What is it that I need to do in order to make XPath work on this Atom feed?

EDIT

Although this question has an answer, I found out this question has an almost exact duplicate: SelectNodes not working on stackoverflow feed