Chris thank you so much for your help. The part I needed was the .getTextContent().

Here is what i have done so far.

Since the nodes could contain 3-5 child nodes i created a series of "if" statements to see which child node i have landed on and then map that value to a correct variable:

var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST');


//gs.log(node.toString());


var iter= node.getChildNodeIterator();




//vars for mapping


var id = '';


var ip = '';


var track = '';


var dns = '';


var net = '';


var os = '';




while(iter.hasNext){


       var n = iter.next();


       //gs.log('Node name: ' +   n.getNodeName());


       var name = n.getNodeName();


       


       if(name === 'ID'){


               id = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("ID is: " + id);


       }


       


       if(name === 'IP'){


               ip = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("IP is: " + ip);


       }


       


       if(name === 'TRACKING_METHOD'){


               track = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("Track is: " + track);


       }


       


       if(name === 'DNS'){


               dns = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("DNS is: " + dns);


       }


       if(name === 'NETBIOS'){


               net = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("NetBios is: " + net);


       }


       if(name === 'OS'){


               os = n.getTextContent();


               gs.log("OS is: " + os);


       }


}

This brings me a nice clean output of my vars = the data from the child nodes or null if there was no value for it.

Now the fun part. You mentioned using:

var host1 = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST');

var host2 = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST[2]);

var host3 = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST[3]);

How would i go about iterating through that using a for loop?

for(var i = 0; i < what goes here????;i++){


       var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST[i]');

I tired:

for(var i = 0; i < node.length;i++){


       var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//HOST[i]');

but that returned nothing.

I don't really know which variable is the array, or if one really exists here.