@Eric B I knew the contents of the XML, just not whether

xml.Parser.fromString

was working correctly, which was why I was trying to

log

the result of

xml.Parser.fromString

, to see if it looked like what I'd expect it to look like with all the relevant nodes etc, but instead was only getting something like

{"name":"#document","type":"DOCUMENT_NODE","value":null,"textContent":null}

. It turns out that

log

doesn't display the XML result nicely as @JohnnyC mentioned, but my use of

xml.Parser.fromString

was indeed working correctly and I could use

xml.XPath.select()

etc to get at the info I wanted