>>>now, the solution you gave:
>>>=STRTOFILE(oIE.Document.XMLDoc.xml, "c:\myfile.xml")
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>>I'm not sure that the above would work anyway. THere's no .XML property for one thing. If you want to pull the content you have to use innertHTML or innerText.
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>I agree with your suggestion to use a more direct method like XMLHTTP...
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>But if the document is in a data island in the document, the above solution should work, because An XMLDOM document is available in the HTML DOM, and the document object does have an xml property that can be used to return the XML within.

I admit I haven't really looked at changes in the IE 5 DOM. I doubt however that the reference you get in the XML property is a DOM reference. It's just going to be text that can be loaded into the DOM.