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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > And I'm finding myself left pretty cold about this generally. Maybe > there's something more to it, but this looks pretty much like XPath Lite > with ECMAScript object syntax. Maybe that's what people want. I can > see an 80/20 there, though it strikes me funny that they used, well, > JavaScript, a language I've been running away from for years. I read this over and I liked it. It struck a cord with me becuase it takes an API and makes it into syntax. The idea of preferring syntax over an API is a theme I hit on in Language-Centric Software Development[1]. DOM and SAX are just APIs and, as such, are 'tacked' on to the side of a language, while E4X is a language tuned to solve problems in a particular domain. [1] http://bitworking.org/story/5 -joe -- http://BitWorking.org http://WellFormedWeb.org
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