[Rails] XML parsing, block name with minus

Hi!

I'm trying to parse a XML document (MusicXML), I found that here
something about it: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2008/08/11/parsing-xml-with-ruby/
- I chose Hpricot, but I have a problem: in XML document, which I'm
trying to parse, there are names of blocks with minus sign, for
example <score-partwise>. In Hpricot it should looks something like
this:

xml = File.read(path)
puts Benchmark.measure {
doc = Hpricot::XML(xml)
(doc/:score-partwise).each do |s|
# here we have s as each score-partwise block
end
}

But it throws undefined local variable or method `partwise' for
#<MusicxmlController:0xb6badff4>, becouse in symbols names minus sign
is prohibited. How can I make a symbol name with minus sign?

cheers,
simon

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