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• Why doesn't this jquery selector with a period work 8 answers

I have an XML document that looks someting like this:

<event>
    <foo.bar>content</foo.bar>
</event>

I use jQuery to read this xml document as follows:

var $xml = $( $.parseXML(xmlStr) );

When i try to select the foo.bar node, it will search for a node with the name foo and the class bar. How can i select this node by tagname?

$xml.find( "foo.bar" ) //returns nothing, searches for tag foo with class bar