I just wanna to use jQuery.parseHTML to parse a string into an array of DOM nodes. But I had encountered one problem about it.

Please refer to the test case http://jsfiddle.net/ACdXh/1/.

When it parse the string below:

<a title="xxx />">xxx /></a>

howerver, the result is:

<a title="xxx ></a>">xxx /></a>

I guess jQuery.parseHTML recognize the a tag as an empty element(sure it can't be), and as for non-empty elements of xhtml, end tags are required so it adds the corresponding end tag to it.

looking forward to your feedback.

thanks,

Khalil