It's explained here: http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_frm/thread/95718c9aab2c7483/af37adcb54b816c3?lnk=gst&q=parsexml&pli=1
On May 7, 10:24 pm, ScottChiefBaker <[email protected]> wrote: > I created a simple test case: > > http://www.perturb.org/tmp/jquery-test.html > > On May 7, 12:41 pm, ScottChiefBaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The following example works great in Firefox, and Chrome but fails > > miserably in IE (6,7,8). I'm running JQuery 1.3.2 if it makes a > > difference: > > > $('resp',"<root><resp>value</resp></root>").text(); > > > That evaluates to "vaule" in everything except IE. Am I missing > > something?

