XML and ASP: Retrieve and parse a remote file

Question

I\'m building a site on a Windows Server with ASP enabled. I need to retrieve an XML document from another server and return a value in that document. The xml file is small

Answer 1

Change line 4 of your original snippet to

Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0")

and line 14 to

Set oRoot = objXML.selectSingleNode("//response")

and you should be fine (assuming your xml is as AnthonyWJones describes).

Your original //xml/response would get the text from a document that looked like this

    hello