Comment #50 on issue 235 by pawel.knapik: Support the Javascript E4X extension
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=235
XML was a fad and EX4 spoke to that fad.
I hate XML. I hate being forced to deal with it instead of, say, JSON. But it's out there and, sadly, it doesn't seem to go anywhere. There are APIs, web services, RSS/ATOM feeds and other things that use XML. I don't really have any choice if I want to interact with them. That's why I am glad that "E4X spoke to that fad". It makes XML bearable for people like me, who'd love to use JS paradigms to interact with available data. I understand your line of argumentation, and for the time being I can use some middleware to parse/create XML to use in my application. It's not a big deal, but still: it requires me to run another server and add code in another programming language to interact with XML-based services.
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