selectors with xml cdata, parse html string

selectors with xml cdata, parse html string

I have an XML document that is returned which has an element named html. Inside of that element is a block of HTML wrapped with CDATA tags. I can alert the html variable that i create and see it has all of the data inside of it. So I want to parse through and grab certain things now. I'm just trying to get the element to return it's id to me, even though I know it ... because I kept getting the following error. I still continue to get this error with the current code below.

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: >


   $.ajax({
      url: "http://www.mysite.com/response.xml",
      type: "GET",
      dataType: "xml",
      success: function (xml) {
         html = $(xml).find("html").text();
            alert($("#mydiv", html).attr("id"));
      },
      error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
         alert("textStatus: " + textStatus);
         alert("errorThrown: " + errorThrown);
      }
   });