Hi - i tried to post this earlier but it didn´t seem to take.  Hopefully it works this go round...

I am new to jquery/javascript coming from a as3 background.   and i am trying to figure out the best way to parse my xml...

i absolutely love e4x, cant really imagine living without it, but i´ve seen a bunch of stuff that says it doesn´t work on explorer.    obviously if i need some nodes from an xml file it does me no good to do it twice - once for explorer and once for other browsers - so i am stuck doing it the old fashion way.

is there a way to make e4x work across browsers? - to be clear i am not wanting to directly display the xml file i just want to select particular nodevalues...

 --- as a related question... assuming i am stuck what is the best way to parse the xml.   for instance say i had,

<root>
...
<text>                  // <<  i am calling this the "text node"
     <width/>
     <height/>
      <text/>           // <<  i am calling this the "text child node"
</text>
...
</root>

its seems that something like,

thexml.getElementsByTagName("text")  returns both the "text nodes" and the "text child nodes" .  this is annoying. 

how do i do the equivalent of  

thexml.text    and    thexml.text.text   ???

thanks!
brook