How to write functions in jQuery?
<p>I'm going to be writing a callable function which will make use of jQuery. But I can't find any reference to ordinary function declaration with jQuery; it's all about element manipulation functions. Can I essentially just declare an ordinary javascript function and then use jQuery in it, or do I need to be doing something special? Is this okay?</p>

<pre><code>function useJQ(xml)
{
    var groups = {};
    $('resultGroups', $(xml)).each(function() {
    var count = $('results', this).length;
    var name = $('name',this).text();
    groups[name] = count;
}
</code></pre>
