xml properties not working

I have a chunk of data that feeds my app, and unfortunately it only comes in xml. 

I have this line:

\<field id="6" field\_type="text" base\_type="text"\>

where I’d like to get the property “field_type”. Using the v1.1 of the xml from the github, it did a printTable and it only shows properties: { id, type }

Where does it get type from? Why not “field_type” and “base_type”?

My only guess is the (_) underscore is messing things up in the parser…any body have any ideas how to fix this?

-John