title: Using the Rome Java API to access metadata fields
body: <p>I've been using the Rome API to parse data from an XML feed pretty successfully so for, but have run in to a bit of a snag. </p>
  
  <p>Given the following snippet of XML:</p>
  
  <p>&lt;entry&gt;<br>    &lt;id&gt;uniqueId&lt;/id&gt;<br>    &lt;updated&gt;2008-11-05T01:32:35Z&lt;/updated&gt;<br>    &lt;mm:status xmlns:mm=&quot;<a href="http://contentprovider.com&amp;quot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://contentprovider.com&amp;quot</a>; available=&quot;true&quot;/&gt;<br>    &lt;title&gt;Title&lt;/title&gt;<br>  ...<br> ...<br>&lt;/entry&gt;</p>
  
  <p>Using the SyndEntryImpl class I'm able to use its standard methods (getTitle, getPublishedDate, etc) to pull the title, id, updated date, etc, but havent figured out a way to get the metadata tag (&lt;mm:status ...). </p>
  
  <p>Getting a string representation of the feed entry would be an acceptable solution as I'd be able to use string functions to retrieve the information, but even with that I havent found an easy method. </p>
  
  <p>Has anyone run in to this in the past?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks. </p>