ECMAscript for XML

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ECMAscript for XML (ak E4X) is an extension to ECMAscript that is available both in JavaScript (Firefox) and ActionScript 3.

Using E4X is considerably simpler than using the DOM.

Links

Introductory tutorials

• Fremantle, Paul and Anthony Elder (1005). AJAX and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 1, IBM Works, HTML

• E4X Tutorial, W3Schools.

• Introducing E4X (by Kurt Cagle, xml.com, nov 2007)

Flash/ActionScript/Flex

• The E4X approach to XML processing (Adobe, part of the Flex manual/Programming ActionScript 3.0)

• Using an E4X expression in a data binding expression (Adobe)

• E4X (Adobe, Flex, Getting Started)

• Intro to E4X (Actionscript.org)