construct a DOM tree from a string without loading resources (specifically images)

Question

So I am grabbing RSS feeds via AJAX. After processing them, I have a html string that I want to manipulate using various jQuery functionality. In order to do this, I need a

Answer 1

The answer is this:

var parser = new DOMParser();
var htmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(htmlString, "text/html");
var jdoc = $(htmlDoc);
console.log(jdoc.find('img'));

If you pay attention to your web requests you'll notice that none are made even though the html string is parsed and wrapped by jquery.