Hi Patrick and many thanks for the help...glad it is an easy one!
I can copy the Xpath, and I have used the current / relative xpath in code like this---
comments = eventObj.Source.selectSingleNode("@Comments").text
However, in the email webservice dataconnection, it won't let me enter anything except the entire xpath..
See picture - I cannot remove the /dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:vw_Fedex_SPOD_N/@Email to just have the relative path @Email. The Infopath GUI won't let me.
The GUI for this webserice data connection only lets me pick a field from the data connections,exactly as it is. No changes to XPATH.
Should I setup another data connectionto use in the email webservice,and populate it with the current xpath?