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all i need to do is make a very simple parser that would go to an element and get the value
 
Well I don't know if this is the simplest or best way but you could use CFXMLTreeCreateFromData() to create a tree structure of your xml data, and then walk the tree to find the node(s) that you want using
CFTreeGetFirstChild, CFTreeGetNextSibling etc. Have a look at the CFTree reference for the details.

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