You can easily handle multiple namespaces in XML using E4X without changing the namespace used in the class (per Jordi’s comment).

I wrote up a post on it a while back:
http://userflex.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/xml-ns-e4x/

This technique can also be applied when you don’t know what namespaces are specified beforehand, since you can iterate over the XML.namespaceDeclarations() array to determine what ones are used in the XML.

Hope that helps!

Namespaces is something I’ll have to look into a bit more. I’ll give both of those suggestions a shot though, and see what I can make work…

I was trying to extract the paths of the icons from the applicationDescriptor files in an AIR application (for my ApplicationInfo class) but was getting stumped.

default xml namespace = “http://my.xml.com/ns/1.0″;

var x : XML =

Test

;

trace( x.node.item.text() ); // traces “Test”

class Foo {
namespace blah = “http://url_of_your_xmlns_declaration”;
use namespace blah;
}

If you set up your class like this, with the url used for the namespace in the xml file, and that use statement using it, you can then access everything properly.

That being said, you should be careful because once you’ve namespaces, code like someXml.name() returns “http://namespaceUrl::realName”, someXml.localName() returns only “realName” though.