how to select elements with COLON with xpath, e.g. <x:y>TEXT</x:y>?

[ryszard]

In order to select TEXT from <x>TEXT</x> element you can use xpath = '//x/text()',

but what is the syntax when markup contains COLON? e.g. <x:y>TEXT</x:y>?

When I use obvious  '//x:y/text()' in scrapy shell I am getting

ValueError: Invalid XPath: .//x:y/text()

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath tutorial

does not give any examples for this type of selection.

[Bill Ebeling]

This may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4817112/xpath-query-for-xml-node-with-colon-in-node-name