The responseXML is  DOM containing the XML "seen" in the response text. If 
it's empty then either it's not XML being returned or the content type is 
not set correctly.
Can you browse the URL in question and see the XML being returned?

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"Buzby" <gb@p...> wrote in message 
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> Martin Honnen wibbled:
>
>> Buzby wrote:
>>
>> > Ok set up xml.parseError & it's showing the following now:
>> >
>> > Error parsing XML file:No data is available for the requested
>> > resource.  [http://www.hotelresb2b.com/xml/dtd/res_paises.dtd: line
>> > 0, col 0]
>> >
>> > However I'm getting the following in the response if I write out the
>> > xmlhttp.responseText  which I assume was being loaded with the line
>> > "xml.loadxml(xmlhttp.responseText)"
>>
>> Why do you try that? Can't you simply use xmlhttp.responseXML as the
>> input document for your transformation?
>
> I though thats what "xml.loadxml(xmlhttp.responseText) " did!?
>
> Sorry - this is the first time I've done this
>
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> Buzby
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