Parsing of <link> tag text is incorrect when a url is specified

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When Parsing RSS the following does not return the URL as expected. It returns an empty string.

var text = $('<channel><title>Hello world</title><link>​http://www.google.com</link></channel>').find('link').text();

I've tested it in firefox and chrome.

[danheberden]

That converts the string into an actual dom node - link tags, as you're probably already aware, don't ever contain html; they are self terminating tags.

If you are using this in an ajax request, simply use the "xml" dataType option.

If you need to parse your text, use jQuery.parseXML

var xmlDoc = jQuery.parseXML( "<channel><title>Hello world</title><link> http://www.google.com</link></channel>" ),
    $xml = $( xmlDoc );

console.log( $xml.find('link').text() );

​http://jsfiddle.net/danheberden/H9K3Z/

Next time, please be sure to submit a jsfiddle.net test case so we can easily jump into your problem.

[danheberden]

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