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ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification

ECMA has approved the ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification, which defines the syntax and semantics of a set of programming language extensions adding native XML support to ECMAScript:

E4X adds native XML datatypes to the ECMAScript language, extends the semantics of familiar ECMAScript operators for manipulating XML objects and adds a small set of new operators for common XML operations, such as searching and filtering. It also adds support for XML literals, namespaces, qualified names and other mechanisms to facilitate XML processing.

E4X goes back to a request by BEA in March 2003.

By Oliver Horn at 2004-07-01 13:30 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 10406 reads

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Eralier E4X appearances

We discussed E4X a couple of time in the past.

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By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2004-07-01 13:53 | login or register to post comments

Motivation

Sections 5 and 6 giving the motivation and design principles may be of interest.

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2004-07-01 14:06 | login or register to post comments