[jQuery] Loop through XML to find children

[Nic Hubbard]

I have an XML structure like the following:

<item>
  <attr1>1</attr1>
  <attr2>2</attr2>
  <attr3>3</attr3>
</item>

This XML gets returned to me after an ajax post, so I can get the tags
using:
$(xml).find('item').each(function() {
var 1 = $(this).children('attr1').text();
var 2 = $(this).children('attr2').text();
}

But, what if I don't want to set those into vars, but push each
attribute into an array, even if I don't know the name?  Also, could I
push them into an associative array so that I the name/value pairs are
together?

Thanks!