Namespaced XML attributes not triggering bind()/live() events

[joechung]

For XHTML 1.0 Transitional documents:

$("a[bi
:cid]").bind("click", function() { ... }) works in: . Internet Explorer 8 RC1 . Safari 3.2.1 . Chrome 1.0.154.46

It does not work in: . Internet Explorer 6 or 7 . Firefox 3.0.5 . Opera 9.63

$("a").attr("bi:cid") works in all the browsers listed above.

[dmethvin]

IE doesn't support XHTML documents.