Are there any more powerful XML parsers than the one built into jQuery?

Question

I am trying to parse XML feeds from YouTube using jQuery (by doing $(xml).find(...)), but jQuery is having really hard time with those. YouTube feeds are real mess - they have bunch of namespace tags, escaped html tags with inline styles and what not.

Are there any more powerful javascript XML parsers out there (preferably jQuery-compatible) that can chew such mess?

Answer 1

http://simplepie.org/ is a fast processor for PHP.

Answer 2

YouTube also supports JSON which may be easier to work with from jQuery. You can find a starter at http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_json.html.

Answer 3

Instead of XML parsing pain, check out the JSON response format the API offers.

You can check out the YouTube JSON API Documentation here.