Simple query not working

[eluser]mabright[/eluser]
I found the issue but I still have to resolve it.

If I echo the query and look at the page source code it is as follows;

Code:

SELECT `region` FROM `papp_region_fk`
WHERE UPPER(`country`) = '<COUNTRYCODE>US</COUNTRYCODE>'
AND   UPPER(`description`) = '<REGIONNAME>GEORGIA</REGIONNAME>'

I have no idea why this would not show up on the actual page but in the page source code.

The results from my call to the third party API returns XML and I need to properly parse it somehow.