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How to Parse XML in ASP?

Aug 8th, 2005

Hey guys,
I'm having a "great" pleasure of parsing XML in my ASP page, except I can't seem to figure it out what I'm doing wrong. I have tried a bunch of stuff and can't seem to read a simple xml doc. here is what my code looks like...

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' Create new XML reader object
Dim xmlDoc
Set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
 
' Load the specified XML file (returns XML output)
xmlDoc.load("http://somesite.com/api/xml?action=login&login=jon@doe.com&password=foobar")
 
' Parse XML
if xmlDoc.parseError.errorcode <> 0 then
  ' oops error in xml
  Response.Write("XML Error...<br>")
else
  ' get xml data
  Response.Write(xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes(0).attributes.getNamedItem("code").nodeValue)
end if
' Create new XML reader object
Dim xmlDoc
Set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")

' Load the specified XML file (returns XML output)
xmlDoc.load("http://somesite.com/api/xml?action=login&login=jon@doe.com&password=foobar")

' Parse XML
if xmlDoc.parseError.errorcode <> 0 then
  ' oops error in xml
  Response.Write("XML Error...<br>")
else
  ' get xml data
  Response.Write(xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes(0).attributes.getNamedItem("code").nodeValue)
end if

my xml looks like this...

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<results>
	<status code="value"/>
</results>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<results>
	<status code="value"/>
</results>

and my error is...

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Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'

Object required: 'documentElement'

This is my first time working with XML in ASP, so it is possible i'm missing something simple, any ideas what's going wrong here?

Thanks