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var xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string xmlns="http://myUrl.com">you said:This is a test --&gt;SHA1:7d9d2886509cfd1dfd3c693fff43b82561ec00a18621ce784d65b912e2013df6</string>';

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

var test = parsed.find("string");

alert(test.text());