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I'm trying to do the simplest example of an XMLHttpRequest take straight from a tutorial. I have an XML file note.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<note>
    <to>Jimmy</to>
    <from>Paul</from>
    <body>Hello!</body>
</note>

and a html with javascript

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>W3Schools Internal Note</h1>
<div>
<b>To:</b> <span id="to"></span><br>
<b>From:</b> <span id="from"></span><br>
<b>Message:</b> <span id="message"></span>
</div>

<script>
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","note.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;

document.getElementById("to").innerHTML=
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("to")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.getElementById("from").innerHTML=
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("from")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.getElementById("message").innerHTML=
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
</script>

</body>
</html>

As you can see this is taken straight from W3schools. I try and open the HTML in chrome or IE explorer and I get nothing but...

W3Schools Internal Note

To: From: Message:

Nothing populated...What simple thing am I missing. Both files are stored in the same local directory.

Thanks

mageets
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