E4X: grab nodes with namespaces?

Question

I want to learn how to process XML with namespaces in E4X so basically here is what I want to learn, say I have some XML like this:

Answer 1

If you have a XML that contains multiple names but you don't care about the namespaces when getting values from the XML you can do the following....

Example XML

  Printed Material
  
    
      James
      Smith
    
    The Book Title
  
 

You could get any item regardless of namespace like this

var itemType:String = xml.*::ItemType;
var bookISBN:Number = xml.*::Book.@isbn;
var bookTitle:String = xml.*::Book.Title;