Hi there, thanks for your help.
Unfortunately its not my xml feed, its from my supplier and its hosted on their servers. I tried what you said but no joy 
perhaps its because the xml is not hosted on my server, i know browsers have some access rules for security... is there a workaround?
I have been trying:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function loadXMLDoc(fname)
{
var xmlDoc;
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
}
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
}
else
{
alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
}
xmlDoc.async=false;
xmlDoc.load(fname);
return(xmlDoc);
}
xml=loadXMLDoc("http://www.supplier.com/catalog/xml-feed/stock.xml");
path="/STOREITEMS/PRODUCT[@NAME=$product 1]/STOCK[contains(., "In")]/.."
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
var nodes=xml.selectNodes(path);
for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++)
{
document.write(nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<br />");
}
}
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
{
var nodes=xml.evaluate(path, xml, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
var result=nodes.iterateNext();
while (result)
{
document.write(result.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<br />");
result=nodes.iterateNext();
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Does that look right?
