Xpath expression in condition editor

Hi Expert Forum !
I have an xml structure like this :
<aaa>
<bbb>
    <ccc>
    </ccc>
</bbb>
</aaa>
In my condition editor (receiver determination) I want to refer to an element which is a child of node <ccc>. However, node ccc is not defined in my data type.
I can without any problems type my xpath expression manually but it doesn't seem to work though. As if it doesn't recognize node ccc if it's not in the data type. I know for 100% sure that node ccc will be in my inbound message.
Is it possible to reference an element in the condition editor - knowing that it will be present in the inbound message - even though it's not defined in the underlying data type ??
So why not just change the data type if I know <ccc> will be there? Well, data type is an external definition and I don't wanna edit it only to support an xpath expression in my rec. determination. If I can avoid it...
Message was edited by:
        Hans Hougaard
Message was edited by:
        Hans Hougaard

Managed to make xpath expression work. It is possible to reference an element which is not defined in the data type. My problem turned out to be a namespace issue..

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