XMLStreamException when there is a : character in element name

[kaushalkumar]

We are using StAXON (due to its performance via StAX processing) to parse json input which contains colon(:) as element name. Colon is valid element name in json but while parsing via StAXON we are getting exception.

Is there a way to ignore colon while parsing (reading/writing) JSON.

Sample Input : {"cust:person":{"name":"John Doe","phone":"555-1111"}}

Exception
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: Unbound prefix: cust
at de.odysseus.staxon.base.AbstractXMLStreamScope.verify(AbstractXMLStreamScope.java:212)
at de.odysseus.staxon.base.AbstractXMLStreamScope.setStartTagClosed(AbstractXMLStreamScope.java:234)
at de.odysseus.staxon.base.AbstractXMLStreamReader.ensureStartTagClosed(AbstractXMLStreamReader.java:191)
at de.odysseus.staxon.base.AbstractXMLStreamReader.readStartElementTag(AbstractXMLStreamReader.java:272)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.readStartElementTag(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:93)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.consume(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:202)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.consume(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:153)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.consume(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:183)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.consume(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:153)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.consume(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:183)
at de.odysseus.staxon.base.AbstractXMLStreamReader.initialize(AbstractXMLStreamReader.java:216)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.initialize(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:87)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLStreamReader.(JsonXMLStreamReader.java:78)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(JsonXMLInputFactory.java:150)
at de.odysseus.staxon.json.JsonXMLInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(JsonXMLInputFactory.java:45)
at JsonXml.main(JsonXml.java:27)