[jQuery] yet again XML+jQuery+IE7

[Tzury]

The following example (from the jquery-doc-site) works fine with
firefox.
however, in IE7  $("element_name", xml).text() returns empty-string
anyone bypassed this issue in the past?

 $(document).ready(function() {
   // generate markup
   $("#rating").append("Please rate: ");

   for ( var i = 1; i <= 5; i++ )
     $("#rating").append("<a href='#'>" + i + "</a> ");

   // add markup to container and apply click handlers to anchors
   $("#rating a").click(function(e){
     // stop normal link click
     e.preventDefault();

     // send request
     $.post("rate.php", {rating: $(this).html()}, function(xml) {
       // format and output result
       $("#rating").html(
         "Thanks for rating, current average: " +
         $("average", xml).text() +
         ", number of votes: " +
         $("count", xml).text()
       );
     });
   });
 });