Namespace handling in Groovys XmlSlurper

Question

The situation:

def str = \"\"\"
  
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Answer 1

I know this was answered a while ago, but here's an alternative for anyone else facing the same issue. The XmlSlurper class has three constructors, a couple of which allow you to specify you want it to be namespace-aware.

public XmlSlurper(boolean validating, boolean namespaceAware)

Declare the slurper by calling new XmlSlurper(false, true). I hope this is useful to others.