I have a response that comes from server side in xml format (partial like below)

<list>

    <Response>

        <cfgId>903</cfgId>

        <recommendations>

            &lt;Rule&gt;

            &lt;name&gt;Env SSA_RB_RESTART&lt;/name&gt;

            &lt;category&gt;none&lt;/category&gt;

            &lt;severity&gt;warning&lt;/severity&gt;

            &lt;ruleEvalResult&gt;true&lt;/ruleEvalResult&gt;

            &lt;actionResult&gt;Setting SSA_RB_RESTART=0 will cause RuleBase corruption.Kindly unset this environment variable and

            restart the IIR server&lt;/actionResult&gt;

            &lt;/Rule&gt;

        </recommendations>

    </Response>

    <Response>

        <cfgId>903</cfgId>

        <recommendations>

            &lt;Rule&gt;

            &lt;name&gt;SSAOPTS (+Ltd) setting&lt;/name&gt;

            &lt;category&gt;none&lt;/category&gt;

            &lt;severity&gt;warning&lt;/severity&gt;

            &lt;ruleEvalResult&gt;true&lt;/ruleEvalResult&gt;

            &lt;actionResult&gt;

            Please note that it is not recommended to have SSAOPTS=+Ltd in case of the 

            Production environment.&lt;/actionResult&gt;

            &lt;/Rule&gt;

        </recommendations>

    </Response>

</list>

update

I get the main Response tag with xml=$(xmldata); var resp_x = $(xml).find('Response').text(); and then I am trying to replace with below

resp_x = resp_x.replace(/&lt;/g,<);

resp_x = resp_x.replace(/&gt;/g,>);

var rule_x = $(resp_x).find('name').text();

alert(rule_x);

but it gives me blank, please help me fetch severity.

UPDATE with my answer

var xmlString=xmlToString(xmldata);

                xmlString=xmlString.replace(/(&lt;)/g,<).replace(/(&gt;)/g,>);



                xml=StringtoXML(xmlString);



 //now I can do my operations here

 $(xml).find('Response').each(function(){

   console.debug($(this).find('severity').text());

 });





function xmlToString(xmlObj) {

if (navigator.appName == Netscape)

{

   return (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(xmlObj);

}

if (navigator.appName == Microsoft Internet Explorer)

{

    return xmlObj.xml;

}

}



function StringtoXML(text){

if (window.ActiveXObject){

  var doc=new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');

  doc.async='false';

  doc.loadXML(text);

} else {

  var parser=new DOMParser();

  var doc=parser.parseFromString(text,'text/xml');

}

return doc;

}