How to 'select' from XML with namespaces?

Question

I have an XML document something like :::

Answer 1

If you don't care about the namespace, you can use the XPath `local-name()' function:

Alternatively the same same thing can be expressed like this. I'm not certain if this is standard XPath and if all XPath implementations support it (ColdFusion does, so probably Java does as well). Maybe someone knows if this conforms to any standard.