Download XML file from Web

Hi,
I'm trying to basically implement a web service client of sorts in max/msp.

The idea being to send requests to various semantic web services (linked data, dbpedia, etc), then do something clever with the results.

Just getting started, and it seems really hard to search for this topic, since all the keywords are ubiquitous (url, download, webservice, xml, etc ...)

I'm guessing I'd implement most of this in javascript, and I've installed the xmljs.sourceforge.net packages to that end.

However, I still can't figure out how to request the xml from a remote server (or even a localhost server for that matter)

I've looked at jweb, but it seems to show content (which I don't care about), but not stream the content out an output.

Can someone point me to an implementation of what I'm describing?

or just the javascript code for how you'd do this within the max environment?

thanks for your time

Don