JQuery :: Alternative To Html() For XML Documents?

I am retrieving an XML document like the following:

<SampleData>
<contentContainer>
<div>HTML goes here</div><div>HTML goes here</div>
</contentContainer>
<moreRecords>1</moreRecords>
</SampleData>

I was using a statement like this to take the content out of the "contentContainer" element and place it into another element:

$('#myDiv').html($(newXML).find("contentContainer").html());

This works great in Firefox, but doesn't in IE. I can use the following in IE using the text method, but that doesn't do what I want:

$('#myDiv').html($(newXML).find("contentContainer").text());

It appears that the html method isn't available with XML. Is there an alternate method I can use to grab a whole chunk of HTML within a portion of my XML document?