Generally all of my XML work involves Flash, and trying to figure out how to point to my nodes to grab data. I use AS2, so I still use "myXML.firstChild.childNodes[4].firstChild" notation. I know there are other ways I can call this out by testing for nodeName or by using attributes, but I still prefer this method when I'm not the one writing the XML.
Anyway, tracing your XML in Flash, you'll notice Flash cares less about giving this information back to you in a digestable format. They give it to you like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?><somenode>someinfo</somenode><somenode><somenode><somenode><somenode></somenode></somenode></somenode></somenode></code></code></em>
Chewing through that can be a pain. I ran across a website that you can plug this into, and it will spit out beautifully formatted XML for your reading enjoyment:
http://www.shell-tools.net/index.php?op=xml%5Fformat
