WebKit browsers can't find() using expression with escaped character

[garyf]

I have some code to extract text from an RSS feed including a node containing georss data (geographical coordinates) called georss:point.

IE and Gecko browsers are able to use find('georss
:point').text() to extract the text but WebKit browsers (Chrome/Safari3) totally fail to find it.

I'm wondering if escaped characters in find() expressions aren't compatible with WebKit?

I've attached two files which reproduce the problem. IE/FF will show the extracted geo coordinates correctly. (Please point the script to your local copy of jquery.js)

[garyf]

JQuery test to reproduce problem

[garyf]

Example XML file (RSS) to use against the example code

[garyf]

Opera doesn't like it either and nor does FireFox 2.

So it's just IE 6+7 and FF 3 that works well with this method.

Opera 9, FF 2, Safari 3, Chrome 1 don't like it. Is there any other way to achieve the same goal that's x-browser compatible? Thanks.

[Rick Waldron]

This issue no longer exists - tested with attached test case files locally, in FF3