http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/11/30/9982.aspxSomething I've been pondering. Living over in System.Xml.XPath is an extension method to XNode (from LINQ to XML) called CreateNavigator . So, given something like an XElement ; XElement x = new XElement( "foo" ); I can go ahead and get an XPathNavigatorenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Debug Build: 40407.4157)