How to use jQuery for XML parsing with namespaces

Question

I\'m new to jQuery and would like to parse an XML document.

I\'m able to parse regular XML with the default namespaces but with XML such as:

Answer 1

None of the solutions above work that well. I found this and has been improved for speed. just add this, worked like a charm:

$.fn.filterNode = function(name) {
    return this.find('*').filter(function() {
       return this.nodeName === name;
    });
};

usage:

var ineedthatelementwiththepsuedo = $('someparentelement').filterNode('dc:creator');

source: http://www.steveworkman.com/html5-2/javascript/2011/improving-javascript-xml-node-finding-performance-by-2000/