[jQuery] Parseing XML in Internet Explorer with jQuery

[jQuery] Parseing XML in Internet Explorer with jQuery


I am writing an application that looks up addresses based on post
codes. I have modified the perl script that the database provider
supplied to output XML, and now I need to write some client side
javascript to parse the results.
At the moment I'm at a very early stage and thought it would be a good
idea to process the XML with jquery but I have run into something of a
snag.
var addressLookupScript    = '/cgi-bin/getAddress.pl'
function listAddresses (xml)
{
    console.log (xml);
    $('address', xml.responseXML).each (function (index)
    {
        console.log (index);
    });
}
$(document).ready (function ()
{
    var addressField = $('#address');
    $('#lookup').click (function ()
    {
        $.ajax ({
            type        : 'GET',
            dataType    : 'xml',
            url            : addressLookupScript + '?address=' + addressField.val (),
            success        : function (response) {listAddresses (response);}
        });
    });
});
As you can see the script doesn't do very much yet, it just loops over
the returned XML and outputs an index number of each loop.
I found that this approach works perfectly in FireFox, but when I
tried to run the same code in Internet Explorer, nothing happened.
Firebug Lite just logged an empty line at the console.log (xml) line
and didn't execute the loop.
I think that logically my code is correct, but there is something
about it that IE doesn't like. If you can shed some light on this I'd
appreciate a fix or a workaround of some sort.