Ah this was a different XML module than I was thinking of because this is complete DOM parser!! But even so it does produce (by default) a flat representation

Ah this was a different XML module than I was thinking of because this is complete DOM parser!! But even so it does produce (by default) a flat representation of the XML. So, if for example, Github did return XML and it looked something like this (shown in Rebol console): >> x: load-xml {<root><name>Mr Miserlou</name><login>xxx</login></root>} == [ <root> [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] ] So to get top-level tags it's just: >> second x == [ <name> "Mr Miserlou" <login> "xxx" ] Now load-json also has a flat option so that a good way to unify things. Here's an updated example showing this: import <json> import <xml> load-*: function [site] [ p: open site content: read p http: query p close p data: parse http/headers/Content-Type [ "application/json" return (load-json/flat content) | "application/xml" return (second load-xml content) ] else [ fail "Content-Type not recognised" ] ;; next 2 lines just turns it into a hashmap so can do: miserlou/name ;; without it could have done: miserlou/<name> ;; for-skip data 2 [data/1: to-word to-string data/1] make map! lock data ] miserlou: load-* https://api.github.com/users/Miserlou print miserlou/name