jQuery selecting a selector with namespaced element

Question

How would I select the following in jQuery?

<ns:text value="my value" />

I have tried the snippets below, but to no avail. Is this possible?

var x= $('ns:text').attr('value'); 
return x;

var x= $('text').attr('value'); 
return x;

Answer 1

You're looking for:

var x= $('ns\\:text').attr('value'); 
return x;

Ref:

• http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors#Special_characters_in_selectors

Answer 2

Take a look at JQuery, XML and namespaces.

It seems that this should work:

var x = $("ns\\:text").attr("value");