On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:39 -0800, Dave Stewart wrote: > Not sure if this is the best reply, but in order to access the > structure, it has to be part of the DOM,
That is not correct. You can build a jQuery instance from a xml object and use the various jQuery query options to search through the xml tree directly. Step, have you tried the method find? $(xml).find('building').each(function() { alert($(this).find('city_id').text()); }); hth, Tim.