Is it possible to parse a SOAP response with a jQuery xml handler?

Question

I have the following SOAP response:

Answer 1

Short answer: yes. SOAP is XML. Any XML parser can read it. SOAP provides a whole layer of stuff using XML as the underlying data exchange format, but if you're not interested in using a SOAP library, an XML library will do it for you. Just makes more work for you.

Answer 2

You need to escape special characters (the colon) using double backslashes \\

var xmlText = $(xml).find("soap\\:Envelope")
                    .find("soap\\:Body")
                    .find("getPurseBalanceResponse")
                    .find("getPurseBalanceResult")
                    .find("balance").text();
console.log(xmlText);

Here is a working fiddle.