[jQuery] Very slow find

[Martin Tiršel]

Hello,

I get XML answer from server with ~5k lines and I need to parse this data  
into the table and display in HTML. I wrote a script to do this job, but  
it takes too much time to complete (~35 seconds in opera), what is not I  
want. Is there a way to improve this script? Perhaps there is more  
effective way to do this.

XML looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xmldata>
<page>
   <name>ebapylibnfwxorjwoeseksnyqumdmxssaduy</name>
   <id>5</id>
   <url>ojosjkfujggkildmlr</url>
   <author>
     <id>7</id>
     <name>b</name>
   </author>
   <languages>
       <lang>sk</lang>
       <lang>cz</lang>
   </languages>
</page>
... 500x similar as above
</xmldata>

JS:

...
     var table = '<table  
class="pagelist"><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Author</th><th>Languages</th><th>Actions</th></tr></thead><tbody>';

     $(xml).find("page").each(function(i) {
       var name = $(this).find("name").text();
       var author = $(this).find("author name").text();
       var languages = new Array();
       $(this).find("languages lang").each(function() {
         languages.push($(this).text());
       });
       languages = languages.join(',');
       table += '<tr><td class="first">' + name + '</td><td  
class="second">' + author + '</td><td class="third">' + languages +  
'</td><td class="fourth">&nbsp;</td></tr>';
     });

     table += '</tbody></table>';

     $("#content_window_pages").append(table);
...

XML structure can be changed if it helps to speed up the script.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Martin