[jQuery] Parse encoded HTML in XML <content> node

[jQuery] Parse encoded HTML in XML <content> node


Hi,
I'm using $.ajax with a dataType of xml. The XML document I'm getting
has a <content> node that contains a bunch of encoded HTML. Sample:
<content>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;
When I alert the text contained within the <content> node:
alert(data.find('content').text());
I can see the above encoded content as formatted HTML:

<a href="
I realize that the text() function is returning text, and not the
nodes within. How can I return the nodes within, either as a jQuery
object or the DOM nodes themselves, rather than the text, so I can
actually parse them?
When I remove the .text() function from the above, ala:
data.find('content p');
I get Undefined. I've tried all kinds of selectors, and nothing
works.
Finally data.find('content); returns object Object.
Thanks,
Jeff