Issue appears to be specifically with 110.0. I updated to 110.2 to make sure we were comparing apples to apples and it works fine! Thanks, hopefully this post helps anyone else who updated to 110 but didn't know about 110.2.
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Updated to beta 110 from the last stable release and now all projects doing XMl parsing including this tutorial project ( scirra.com/tutorials/354/xml-parsing ) don't work anymore, they just don't get any results from the string values or traverse any nodes and such.