Pass jQuery selection to new page?

[badaboom55]

All,

How do I "pass" (POST/GET??) a jQuery selection set from one page to another?

Specifically, I'm talking about passing an XML node, but the process would be the same for passing a <div> tag and its contents, right?
On the first page, I use jQuery to parse an XML file, then when the user clicks a link, I want to pass a reference to a child XML node (depending on which link they click) to the 2nd page.
Then, the 2nd page will have some jQuery that will parse the child node.

[rnd me]

you can only pass strings, not objects like nodes.
you can use cookies or localStorage to pass strings.

[badaboom55]

you can only pass strings, not objects like nodes.
you can use cookies or localStorage to pass strings.

Really? I can only pass strings using GET/POST?
Can you help me understand these examples from jQuery's Documentation?

//Example: Request the test.php page and send some additional data along (while still ignoring the return results).
$.post("test.php", { name: "John", time: "2pm" } );

//Example: pass arrays of data to the server (while still ignoring the return results).
$.post("test.php", { 'choices[]': ["Jon", "Susan"] });

The first one passes an Object, doesn't it?
And the second is an array, right?
So, I imagine if test.php was:

<?php
echo $choices[1];
?>

The output would be "Susan", right?

[rnd me]

your code is json, a string version of javascript objects. to me, a jQuery selection is a collection of DOM elements, which cannot be passed over http without converting to a string, such as html code.