title: Prevent jQuery from manipulating dynamically inserted XML strings
body: <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4262960/is-it-possible-to-add-delete-xml-nodes-with-jquery-ajax#answer-4263390">This answer</a> briefly touched on this topic, but did not mention the problem I am having.</p>
  
  <p>Take a look at <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/F6nkk/1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this fiddle</a>.</p>
  
  <p>As you can see from the alert message, jQuery made a number of changes I was not expecting:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>collapsed the original <code>&lt;node&gt;&lt;/node&gt;</code> into a self-closing tag (<code>&lt;node /&gt;</code>)</li>
  <li><code>$('&lt;SelfClosingNode /&gt;')</code> became <code>&lt;selfclosingnode xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;/selfclosingnode&gt;</code>, eg. made the tag name lower-case, added the xmlns attribute, and split it into opening and closing tags</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I need to be able to insert EXACT xml, i.o.w. I don't want jQuery to mess with my mark-up structure!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for the help...</p>