findall needs support for namespace prefixes

[apond]

Given the following xml:
<ns:root xmlns:ns="http://mynamespace">
<ns:items>
<ns:item id="1"/>
<ns:item id="2"/>
<ns:item id="3"/>
</ns:items>
</ns:root>

Expect:
This should return three item elements:
var items = opfXml.findall('items/item');
or
There should be a way to specify the namespace or it should assume the namespace of the current element.

Actual:
This returns an empty array of elements.

[anuradhag]

Will this be fixed. Is there any alternative to resolve this other than stripping of the namespace prefix?

[mackbrowne]

+1 really need this to work...

[Kami]

We are more than happy (and appreciate it) to take any community contributions for this feature :)