Can anyone comment on this stackoverflow posting that indicates XmlSlurper is actually namespace aware by default

[Kenton Garner]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33418826/are-xmlparser-and-xmlslurper-namespace-aware-by-default#

This has been my experience as well, but perhaps I am confused.

I would like to parse an XML file and reference nodes without specifying the 
namespace prefix, this only works if I set the
XmlSlurper namespace aware parameter to "true" which seems backwards to me.

-garneke