parse html inside cdata using jquery or javascript

Question

I'm getting a website feed that looks like this

<rss...>
    <title> some title </title>
    <content>
         <![CDATA[ <div>this tag is ignored<div> who took the cookie in the cookie jar!?  ]]>
    </content>
</rss>

I need the entire content of the cdata to be displayed in the html. I'm using jquery 1.9.1 and when I get the content part using $(xml).find('rss content').text(), it actually ignores the whole <div>this tag is ignored<div> part. Any way to get everything inside the CDATA using javascript or jquery?

Answer 1

bottomline:

xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("content")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue

this snippet from working code uses jquery to load xml and then gets the 4th occurence of the content tag (which contains CDATA)

var req = new AjaxRequest(); 
req.setMethod("POST"); 
...
req.loadXMLDoc(linkString, paramString);
var htmlContent = req.getResponse().responseXML.getElementsByTagName('content').item(3).childNodes[0].nodeValue;