"LOADING" SOAP response to DOMDocument - vba

Question

After some help from stackoverflow experts I have been able to successfully retrieve my response using SOAP. The below piece is how I received and stored the data. This of course is not all the code. I just included this to show how I later reference the xml.
With xmlhtp
webserviceSOAPActionNameSpace = "http://example.com/webservices/"
.Open "POST", sUrl, False
.setRequestHeader "POST", "https://onesite.example.com/webservices/stuff.asmx HTTP/1.1"
.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"
.setRequestHeader "Content-Length", 100
.setRequestHeader "SOAPAction", webserviceSOAPActionNameSpace & "RetrieveData"
.send sEnv
sResult = xmlhtp.statusText
responseText = xmlhtp.responseText
ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 1).Value = .responseText
End With
Debug.Print responseText
Now I am having trouble parsing that out. This seems like it should be pretty simple but I get an error indicating that the responseText I receive above is not "loading" to xmlDOC. The following is at the beginning of the sub:
Dim xmlhtp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
Dim xmlDoc As New DOMDocument
Dim XDoc As Object
After the With End (shown above) my code looks like this:
Set XDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
XDoc.async = False: XDoc.validateOnParse = False
XDoc.Load (xmlhtp.responseText)
Set lists = XDoc.DocumentElement
Set getFirstChild = lists.FirstChild
Debug.Print getFirstChild.XML
Debug.Print getFirstChild.Text
On the line
Set getFirstChild = lists.FirstChild
I recieve the following error
Object variable or With block variable not set
When I look at the Local Variable window in VBA I can clearly see that nothing was assigned to xmlDoc. So I assume my problem is in XDoc.Load Line.
Any direction would be appreciated.

Answer 1

use XDoc.LoadXML (xmlhtp.responseText) instead of XDoc.Load (xmlhtp.responseText)