html table xml,jQuery convert HTML Table to XML

I am retrieving HTML from a remote host with the following jQuery code

var loadUrl = "URL.html";

$("#result")

.html(ajax_load)

.load(loadUrl + " table.schedule");

Which gives me the following HTML

Name	column A	column B
1	A1	B1
2	A2	B2

Name	column C	column D
3	C1	D1
4	C2	D2

The number of TR & TDs can change, and I want to retrieve the data for column A,B,C,D and "transform" the HTML into a list format like the following XML.

A1

A2

B1

B2

C1

C2

D1

D2

I have tried the following code, which provides me with the first column data, but it also concatenates all the TDs from both Tables into one list.

$("#load_get").click(function(){

var xml = "";

$("#result")

.find("tr").each(function() {

xml += "";

xml += $(this).find("td").eq(1).html() + "\n";

xml += "";

} );

xml += "";

alert(xml);

});

Please help.

EDIT

Thank you Polarblau, Federic & Albert for your responses. They helped a lot, sorry to change the goal, but if i could modify the scenario slightly.

This is the same HTML, except it has a header in the first TR, there are two tables and the first column is ignored as before.

ignore	Header1	header2
ignore	A1	B1
ignore	A2	B2

//second table

The XML i wish to have, needs to grab the Header(TH) and use it in the TD loop to set the name attribute, like so.

A1

A2

B1

B2

//second table xml

I tried unsuccessfully, to modify your solutions to achieve this.