How to parse an XML string with an attribute on the client?

Question

JavaScript

People help, who knows how to parse a string with an attribute on the xml client?
this works: $.parseXML('<foo><bar1>Stuff</bar1><bar2>Stuff</bar2></foo>')
this doesn't work: $.parseXML('<foo xsi:type="SendAnswerViewModel "><bar1>Stuff</bar1><bar2>Stuff</bar2></foo>')
Via DOMParser.parseFromString the same story.
Tried escaping the quotes in the attribute, doesn't help either.

Answer 1

<foo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="SendAnswerViewModel"><bar1>Stuff1</bar1><bar2>Stuff2</bar2></foo>

Not?

Answer 2

I figured it out, the fact is that the namespace for xsi was not specified