Question

<SearchResults>
<error>Search term too small minimum 3 characters</error>
</SearchResults>

How can i grab the contents of <error> and print/store them.

At the moment i am counting them with

$(xml).find("Error").each(function()
{
  errorsFound++; 
}

For other reasons

Answer 1

Seems to work fine here: http://jsfiddle.net/Xy9t7/1/

var errorsFound = 0; 
$("<SearchResults><error>Search term too small minimum 3 characters</error></SearchResults>").find("error").each(function(){
    errorsFound++;
});
alert(errorsFound);

Could be that you’re searching for Error instead of error (note the capitalization)