Xml/rss feed attribute tag problem

I’m working on a flash movie which will display the macromedia developer center rss feed.

Everything is hunky-dorey so far. I can get the feed into my movie and I’m
busy pulling out the nodes I want.

the only problem I see so far is that the attributes tags on a lot of the nodes are like this:

<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/etc.">

and

<item rdf:about="http://www.macromedia.com/etc.">

when I try to target that attribute “rdf:about” or “rdf:resource”, I get syntax errors because of the “:” in there.

has anybody run into this? Am I stupid for thinking I can do this with flash? I’ve done other stuff like this with plain old xml and had no problem!

Help!