Referencing XML Nodes in Word 2003 VBA

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I am trying to access xml elements in a word 2003 document (ActiveDocument) in VBA. I have discovered the XMLNodes collection of the ActiveDocument, but was disappointed to discover that elements of the collection can be referrenced by ordinal index number only! I am wondering if anyone might know of a way to directly access an element by its name, instead.

Here is the code that allows me to do it with ordinal index numbers:

ActiveDocument.XMLNodes(1).ChildNodes(1).Text

I've tried this, which doesn't work:

ActiveDocument.XMLNodes(1).ChildNodes("MyNode").Text

Thanks!