Can xml attributes contain an underscore?

[DC]

I'm having some non-success trying to parse an xml file containing
underscores in the attributes, like so:

<variables first_year="2000" lastyear="2006">
<variable var_name="cost" axis_name="year" type="entity"/>
<variable var_name="enrollment" axis_name="enroll" type="data"/>
<variable var_name="time" axis_name="time" type="data"/>
</variables>
The jquery call that I've used previously without success...something
like: alert ( $(this).attr("var_name"))...gives me a value of
undefined.

[Richard Tobin]

In article <25**********************************@c2g2000pra.g ooglegroups.com>,
DC <da************@gmail.comwrote:

>I'm having some non-success trying to parse an xml file containing
underscores in the attributes, like so:

Underscores are legal. If they weren't, you'd get an error from the
parser, rather than an undefined value from a query.

-- Richard
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