IE8 issue creating jQuery objects that start with "<xml>"

[philipl@…]

In IE8, using jQuery 1.9 and later, I see the following interesting behavior:

$("<div>test</div>");  //works
$("<xyz>test</xyz>");  //works
$("<xml>test</xml>");  //THROWS ERROR

The specific error this returns is as follows: "Unable to get property 'ownerDocument' of undefined or null reference"

[dmethvin]

$() IS NOT FOR PARSING XML.

​http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery2

​http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML/