RE: Objectifying XML - JavaScript Extensions for XML (E 4X) -

To: 'Kurt Cagle' <kurt.cagle@g...>
Subject: RE: Objectifying XML - JavaScript Extensions for XML (E 4X) - Comments?
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:29:24 -0500
Cc: xml-dev@l...

Play the video

That is a better story.

With all of the web interoperability groups floating around, having a Mozilla-only feature would be

a giant step backwards. XAML provides objectified XML and MS gets regularly pummeled for it because

'it ain't XUL' but 'XUL ain't MID' and yadda yadda yadda. More Spy vs Spy arguments about who has the

biggest ... standard. At the end of the day, it comes down to who has the most desktop share so the

greatest probability of interoperation. Systems interoperate. Content is portable. Or not. My concern

will be variant implementations of a feature if it doesn't do more than make it easier to write a script. The

surface area of the system increases by adding a large feature without removing any, thus exposing the

overall system of systems to more failure modes.

Would you say objectification is more than a notation convenience? If so, how?

After that, my next question would be what effect it has once naive script builders put increasing amounts

of content directly into the script. I know it can be done without doing that.

len

From: Kurt Cagle [mailto:kurt.cagle@g...]
Actually IE will possibly have support for E4X in IE7, and Netscape is planning on having E4X support extensively (I can attest to this one personally).

I personally see it of more interest internally - E4X will be used within the Mozilla-based browsers at the XUL level before it makes its way to the web browser pane in general usage. At that level the ability to work with objectified XML makes a great deal more sense, and you have a guarantee of support there that you won't for several years within the web page dev community.

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