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

The "\\" escaping isn't foolproof and the simple

.find('[nodeName="z:row"]')

Method seems to have been broken as of Jquery 1.7. I was able to find a solution for 1.7 , using a filter function, here: Improving Javascript XML Node Finding Performance