title: Escaping special characters inside XPATH
body: <p>I have some elements with the tag <code>&lt;xxx:element&gt;</code> inside my xml. </p>
  
  <p>I want to get these using XPath. I've tried a few ways of getting them but so far unsuccessful.  </p>
  
  <p><code>//xxx:element</code> just doesn't return anything. I'm guessing this is because of the <code>:</code> characater<br>
  <code>//#xxx:element#</code> gives the exception: "A location step was expected following the '/' or '//' token."<br>
  <code>//'xxx:element'</code> same exception.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Based on choroba's answer I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5239685/xml-namespace-breaking-my-xpath">Xml Namespace breaking my xpath!</a></p>