My JS fails after line 1. What am I doing wrong?

I am using Mozilla and I am writing a js (see below) and I am trying to load an XML file using DOM. However, the js fails after Line 1. It shows alert C1 on screen, never shows alert C2. What am I doing wrong? 

 
function search() { 
 
   alert("C1"); 
 
   var oMystuff = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") 
// Line 1 
 
   alert("C2"); // Line 2 
 
   oMyStuff.load ('posters.xml'); 
 
... 
 
}

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Missing semi-colon on the line that creates an ActiveXObject. Failing that, something causing the browser to fail to create an XMLDOM sucessfully. You need to turn on javascript debugging and take a closer look at the error produced.

This was first published in October 2002

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