Javascript Won't Display XML File Content as HTML

EDN Admin · Aug 28, 2012

I have an XML document entitled "CD_Catalog.Xml" the contents of which I am trying display as an HTML document. When I use Internet Explorer 8 to open the HTML document that contains Javascript to display the contents, I get a blank page.
XML File:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
-  
- <CATALOG> 
- <CD> 
<TITLE>Empire Burlesque</TITLE> 
<ARTIST>Bob Dylan</ARTIST> 
<COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY> 
<COMPANY>Columbia</COMPANY> 
<PRICE>10.90</PRICE> 
<YEAR>1985</YEAR> 
</CD> 
- <CD> 
<TITLE>Hide your heart</TITLE> 
<ARTIST>Bonnie Tyler</ARTIST> 
<COUNTRY>UK</COUNTRY> 
<COMPANY>CBS Records</COMPANY> 
<PRICE>9.90</PRICE> 
<YEAR>1988</YEAR> 
</CD> 
</CATALOG>
HTML document:
<html> 
<body>
<script type="text/javascript 
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","cd_catalog.xml",false); 
xmlhttp.send(); 
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
document.write("<table border=1>"); 
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("CD"); 
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) 
{ 
document.write("<tr><td>"); 
document.write(x.getElementsByTagName("ARTIST")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue); 
document.write("</td><td>"); 
document.write(x.getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue); 
document.write("</td></tr>"); 
} 
document.write("</table>"); 
</script>
</body> 
</html>
Not sure whats up...
John

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