Abbreviated Microsoft XML
Document Object Model

There are ~20 objects in the entire Microsoft XML DOM. These are the four used the most often to parse basic XML documents.

Object	Key Properties	Important Methods
MSXML.DOMDocument	childNodes text xml	load loadXML selectSingleNode
MSXML.IXMLDOMNode	childNodes text xml	selectSingleNode
MSXML.IXMLDOMNodeList	item length	nextNode reset
MSXML.IXMLDOMAttribute	text xml	selectSingleNode

(Taken from VBITS 2000 - Slide presentation by Jeffrey McManus)