Grabbing the elements from the XML root node

Hello,  I haven't worked with XML in over a year and I didn't use it much then.  I'm trying to remember the best way to get the values from the root note (not child nodes).

For instance, in the following xml, I want the timestamp and the messageID from stumessages.

I can't recall if you are supposed to use xmlsearch or something else.  I know how to grab the child nodes (for some reason, that part was easier to recall).

<cfsavecontent variable="XMLFile"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE stuMessages SYSTEM "http://cody.glpconnect.com/DTD/StuMessage_Rev6.dtd">

<stuMessages timeStamp="14/05/2012 08:02:11 GMT" messageID="9768c7201b6f100585fbfa3243489116">

     <stuMessage>

          <esn>0-999999</esn>

          <unixTime>1336982529</unixTime>

          <gps>N</gps>

          <payload length="9" source="pc" encoding="hex">0x3530E2B18801031200</payload>

     </stuMessage>

</stuMessages>

</cfsavecontent>

<!--- Set the XML to a XML parsed variable we can use --->

<cfset MyXMLDoc = xmlParse(XMLFile) />

<!--- Dump the XML --->

<h2>Dump</h2>

<!--- <cfdump var="#MyXMLDoc#"> --->

<!--- Get all Message Nodes --->

<cfset messageNodes = xmlSearch(MyXMLDoc,'/stuMessages/stuMessage')>

<cfoutput>

    <h2>Message Nodes</h2>

    <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(messageNodes)#" index="i">

        <!--- The array contents need to parsed so you can easily get at the child nodes children and attributes. --->

        <cfset messageXML = xmlparse(messageNodes) />

        <b>esn:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.esn.xmltext#<br>

        <b>unixTime:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.unixTime.xmlText#<br>

        <b>gps:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.gps.xmlText#<br>

        <b>payload:</b> #messageXML.stuMessage.payload.xmlText#<br><br>

    </cfloop>

</cfoutput>

Best regards

KR