$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({url: '/page/test.html', type: 'GET', dataType: 'html', timeout: 5000, error: function(){ alert('error'); }, success: function(data){ var dom = $("div/p",data); //can I use jquery xpath mechanism to parse the html data $('#parse_result').append(dom); } }); HTML <div> <p><a>test dom tree</a></p> </div> });