jQuery doesn't officialy support XML parsing, it just happens to 'happen' :)
Try $(xml).contents().filter('url') instead, might work. On Nov 3, 2:56 am, glowbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be more explicit, here is the relevant code: > > function displayURL(xml) { > try { > alert(xml); > var result = $("url", xml).text(); > alert(result); > } > catch (ex) { > alert(ex); > } > > } > > In the above code the alert(xml) call shows > the string described in my previous post. The xml > string is being passed in correctly. > > However, the alert(result) call shows that the result > variable is empty, even after the assignment. > > In addition, IE7 has this same problem. (I > originally noticed this problem in IE6.) > > In Firefox, everthing works fine. The alert(result) > call shows that result is assigned the text > between the <url></url> tags as expected. > > Again, any help with this problem is greatly > appreciated.