Sean, >I know that jQuery made the decision not to allow selection of >elements with colons in them, however it is valid XML. Here is an >example piece of code I am getting back from an ajax call: > ><item> ><news:special>Free chicken!</news:special> ></item> > >Any ideas how I can select the news:special item?
There is a similar ticket opened up dealing with id selectors with colons in the name: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/143 It's marked as fixed, but I'm not sure if the fix also addresses nodes w/colons in their name. -Dan