empty() everything except a particular element
<p>Using jQuery's <code>empty()</code> method, can I prevent a particular element from being removed from the DOM, while all other elements are removed?</p>

<p>For instance:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;div id="container"&gt;
    &lt;div id="noRemove"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    ... more content ...
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>When I make this call with jQuery <code>$("#container").empty()</code>, how can I prevent the removal of <code>noRemove</code> while still removing the rest of the content inside <code>container</code>?</p>
