+1  A: 
$('#slider-name').load(this.href + ' cName'); // watch out for the space... 
Reigel
This works fine. Thanks Reigel! I forgot that space before cName!!
Andrew Parisi
While I'm at it--How can I refer to an XML attribute in this situation? 'cName' is an element node, and 'cind' is an attribute of cName. I'd like to display 'cind' elsewhere..
Andrew Parisi