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Explain \\: escaping colon for xml namespace pseudo

See original GitHub issue

While attempting to parse an RSS feed, I got the SyntaxError: unmatched pseudo-class :origlink error. Looking through the issues, I only found references to jQuery pseudo-classes.

For XML parsing, it might help to mention escaping the : with a double backslash. On the other hand, that’s a standard CSS selector feature, so maybe the text of this issue will be enough SEO to help others who run into the same error.

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Created 9 years ago
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Meekohicommented, Apr 7, 2016

lol just ended up back here a year and a half later. It might be nice if this error message were slightly different when xmlMode:true to give a hint at the quick fix.

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kevinpenocommented, Mar 20, 2015

In case anyone stumbles upon this with the intention to use attr, escaping is not necessary (nor possible) in that use case.

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