Accessing XML attributes with namespaces

Question

How one can access attributes with namespaces? My XML data are in a form

val d = 

<

Answer 1

The API documentation refers to the following syntax ns \ "@{uri}foo".

In your example there is no namespace defined, and it seems Scala considers your attribute as unprefixed. See d.attributes.getClass.

Now if you do this:

val d = 

Then:

scala> d \ "@{http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#}about"
res21: scala.xml.NodeSeq = #item_1

scala> d.attributes.getClass
res22: java.lang.Class[_] = class scala.xml.PrefixedAttribute