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HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript

function xml2dom(xml){
    if (window.DOMParser){
        var parser=new DOMParser();
        var dom=parser.parseFromString(xml,"text/xml");
    }else { // IE
        var dom=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
        dom.async="false";
        dom.loadXML(xml);
    } 
    return dom;
}

var xml="<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><COLLADA xmlns='http://www.collada.org/2005/11/COLLADASchema' version='1.4.1'><library_visual_scenes><visual_scene id='SketchUpScene' name='SketchUpScene'><node id='Model' name='Model'><node id='default1' name='default1'><instance_node url='#default'/></node></node><node id='Home' name='Home'><instance_camera url='#Home-camera'/></node></visual_scene></library_visual_scenes><scene><instance_visual_scene url='#SketchUpScene'/></scene></COLLADA>";

var dom=xml2dom(xml);
parent=$(dom).children("COLLADA").children("library_visual_scenes").children("#SketchUpScene");
alert(parent.length);