Consider the following YQL statement:

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select * from xml where url='http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F05288119883720515136%2Flabel%2FYorkie'

What I really want to do is extract the gr:continuation value, but if I change the statement to:

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select gr:continuation from xml where url='http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F05288119883720515136%2Flabel%2FYorkie'

It gives a syntax error because of the colon. Note that other similar tags, such as "generator" work just fine.

Is there a way to escape a character in a situation like this, or is there another clever trick to employ in this situation?