[jQuery] Noob question about accessing element contents

[jQuery] Noob question about accessing element contents


Hi:
I'm a noob, so please be kind.
I am using jquery to parse some xml. I'm looking for the best
practice to access an elements text contents.
Let's say my xml looks like this:
<items>
<item>
Hello world!
</item
<item>
Goodnight moon!
</item>
<items>
I can get a wrapped set of the elements this way: $('items > item',
xml)
And I can get the text of element 1 this way: $('items > item:eq(1)',
xml).text()
But how do I get the contents once I am directly accessing the element
instead of the jquery object?
In other words I'd like to do something like this: $('items > item',
xml)[1].text(), but since the element that’s returned from the array
[] doesn’t support text() how do I get it’s contents?
I know I can wrap it in a second $ call, as in $($('items > item', xml)
[1]).text() but that seems less than ideal.
Thanks!