# All I'm getting, is 'object Element'

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-im-getting-is-object-element/246657>\
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**Created:** [December 13, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-im-getting-is-object-element/246657 "2007-12-13T07:10:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![FreakSheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@FreakSheep](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FreakSheep)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-im-getting-is-object-element/246657/1 "2007-12-13T07:10:28Z")

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Hey guys,

A client is having me do some work with plotting hotels on Google Maps. All is well, but I want to return the number of hotel in the given bounds. The hotels are returned through XML via PHP. The XML format is as follows…

```auto
<markers>
  <num>262</num>
  <marker hid="2" name="A and A Hotel Florence" address="Via Tagliaferri, 40, 72018 San Michele Salentino, Brindisi (Puglia), Italy" lat="17.632141" lng="40.631351" type="hotel"/>
  <marker ..../>
</markers>

```

Now, I retrieve the data with google’s xml parser…

```auto
var xml = GXml.parse(data);
var markers = xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("marker");
var numr=xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("num")[0];

```

I use a for loop with var xml, all goes well there.

I call the \<num\> from the xml with var numr… but all I get when I try sticking it in a DIV, is ‘object Element’.

All you javascript gurus are probably laughing at my, whateverr. C++ and PHP are my kind of thing, not silly javascript :to:

Naaman.