self closed tags not well handled by .find()

[johnccr]

I have embedded XML in HTML and wanted to use find to traverse it, while this worked very well in IE7, on firefox3 was a mess, after some testing I realized it was because of self-closed tags. So the following XML <Section id="6" name="Compliance">

<Requirement id="6.1">

<Description>Compliance</Description> <AppliesTo>

<Characteristic></Characteristic>

</AppliesTo> <Recommendations>

<General>Identify compliance required by your application</General> <Java></Java> <DotNET></DotNET> <PHP></PHP>

</Recommendations>

</Requirement>

</Section>

will become

<Section id="6" name="Compliance">

<Requirement id="6.1">

<Description>Compliance</Description> <AppliesTo>

<Characteristic></Characteristic>

<Recommendations>

<General>Identify compliance required by your application</General> <Java> <DotNET> <PHP></PHP>

</DotNET>

</Recommendations>

</Requirement>

</Section>

</Java>

If I change the <Java/> tag to <Java></Java> traversing works fine.

[dmethvin]

I have embedded XML in HTML and wanted to use find to traverse it

Is your doctype XML, XHTML, or HTML? The browser will change the way it parses the document based on that. Please reopen with a test case so it's clear what is happening.