I'm starting to work more with XML and wanted to make sure I'm not missing something.

I have an XML document like

Chuck
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I load it using Msxml2.DOMDocument but it seems that I have to parse it by skipping every node. I would think there would be something like a collection object where I could put oXML.Item('Customer').Item('Name').Text but item always wants a number. So if I don't know what order the nodes are coming in I have to loop though them to see if nodename = "Customer" then loop though those childern to find the nodename that matches "Name". It just seems like there should be an better way.