[jQuery] XML > HTML

I've got some code like this.
$.get('courseproviders.asp',function(data) {
alert(data.text())
})
The ASP page returns XML. I guess that the callback is an xmlDocument.
How can I convert that to HTML. ie. I'd like to return
<root>
<option>foo</option>
<option>foo2</option>
</root>
as a string.