Public Sub AddItem(ByVal itemId As String) Dim root As XPathNavigator = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator() Dim group1 As XPathNavigator = root.SelectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2/my:group3", NamespaceManager) Dim field1 As XPathNavigator = root.SelectSingleNode("//my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2/my:group3/my:Model_ListBox", NamespaceManager) ‘field1 is my multiple selection listbox, when I check the properties, I get “nothing” I thought it was the ‘usage SelectSingleNode?? When it gets to next line, this is when I get the error message see above. 'I thought I had to delcare field1 as XPathNodeIterator, but then newnode can't take on .Clone(). Dim newNode As XPathNavigator = field1.Clone() newNode.SetValue(itemId)group1.AppendChild(newNode) End Sub