How can I handle XML namespaces in CSS Selectors or in jQuery?

Question

I use jQuery to parse an RSS feed. I can successfully get the RSS feed using AJAX:

$.get(\"podcast.xml\", function (data) {
    xml = $(data);
}, \"xml\");
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Answer 1

I want to add something wired I just explored: If I try the above code on my rekonq browser (which uses webkit), I cannot find the tag by searching for xml.find("channel > itunes\\:image").

I have to omit the term itunes: and have to type xml.find("channel > image"). So we have:

xml.find("channel > itunes\\:image") /* Firefox */

xml.find("channel > image") /* Rekonq (maybe also Safari and Chrome?!) */