[flexcoders] Unable to traverse an XML document whose tag names have : signs

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I'm not being able to traverse an XML document whose tag names have
punctuation signs, for example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<GetListItemsResponse
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/"; 
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
  <GetListItemsResult>
    <listitems xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" 
xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" 
xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">
      <rs:data ItemCount="80">
        <z:row
                        ows_Attachments="0"
                        ows_Status="Active"
                        ows_Priority="High"
                        ows_LinkTitle="Issuer Reports"
                        ows_Description="Provide detailed issuer
reports for selected frequent issuers."
                        ows_Criteria_x0020_Officer="Sheridan, Joseph"
                        ows_Analytic_x0020_Lead_x0020__x0028="various"
                        ows_Practice="ABS"
                        ows_Region="U.S."
                        ows_Criteria_x0020_Category="Other"
                        ows_Scenario_x0020_Analysis="0"
                        ows__ModerationStatus="0"
                        ows__Level="1"
                        
ows_UniqueId="1;#{7DDC1592-279A-4399-9959-4FF6A4E80E06}"
                        ows_FSObjType="1;#0"
                        ows_Created_x0020_Date="1;#2008-09-03 15:56:24"
                        
ows_FileRef="1;#tempforjames/Lists/CriteriaList/1_.000"
                        ows_MetaInfo="1;#"
                        ows_Title="Issuer Reports"
                        ows_ID="1"
                        ows_owshiddenversion="1"
                        ows_Created="2008-09-03 15:56:24"
                        ows_FileLeafRef="1;#1_.000"/>

            <z:row ows_Attachments="0" ows_Status="Active" 
ows_Priority="High" ows_LinkTitle="Criteria Nomenclature Project" 
ows_Description="Update criteria under new nomenclature and article
templates for written criteria publications." 
ows_Criteria_x0020_Officer="Sheridan, Joseph" 
ows_Analytic_x0020_Lead_x0020__x0028="various" ows_Practice="ABS" 
ows_Region="U.S." ows_Criteria_x0020_Category="Other" 
ows_Scenario_x0020_Analysis="0" ows__ModerationStatus="0" ows__Level="1" 
ows_UniqueId="2;#{7D384D4E-3646-42EC-A322-844D2C99D752}" 
ows_FSObjType="2;#0" ows_Created_x0020_Date="2;#2008-09-03 15:56:24" 
ows_FileRef="2;#tempforjames/Lists/CriteriaList/2_.000"
ows_MetaInfo="2;#" 
ows_Title="Criteria Nomenclature Project" ows_ID="2" 
ows_owshiddenversion="1" ows_Created="2008-09-03 15:56:24" 
ows_FileLeafRef="2;#2_.000"/>
      </rs:data>
    </listitems>
  </GetListItemsResult>
</GetListItemsResponse>

I'm trying to do
_xmlResult = XML(oEvent.result);
var list:XMLList = _xmlResult.GetListItemsResult.listitems.rs:data;