ASP 1.0 - Accessing SOAP returned data

hello,

I'm able to successfully retrieve SOAP data using XMLHTTP.
it returns a string of XML (responseText) and I have no clue how to access the nodes within it. Do i need to convert it to XML? (if so how do i do it?).. if not, how do i access the data that's returned?

so.. i've been able to convert the soap responsetext to xml.. but now i can't access the actual content.. only thing i see is the soap envelope..

the info i need is in a node and it's a string formatted in xml:

<node>string</node>

i can access the node.. but it returns a blank when i try to access the text within it..