Raise awareness of E4X – XML in JavaScript

Hello chappies.

Back in 2005, a new standard was brought out to extend JavaScript (ECMAScript) by adding a new “XML” data type:
[url]http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4x[/url]

This would allow direct input of XML into JavaScript and allow for querying with XQuery. For example:

[CODE]var sales = <sales vendor=”John”>
<item type=”peas” price=”4″ quantity=”6″/>
<item type=”carrot” price=”3″ quantity=”10″/>
<item type=”chips” price=”5″ quantity=”3″/>
</sales>;
alert( sales.item.(@type == “carrot”).@quantity );[/CODE]

Currently [B](four years later!)[/B], only [URL=”http://www.w3schools.com/e4x/tryit.asp?filename=trye4x_demo”]Firefox supports this standard[/URL]. Even though it’s an official standard and has been for four years. I can’t think why, for the life of me.

Please help me push support by voting for support in Chromium and Safari’s bug trackers:
[url]http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=30975[/url]
[url]https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5381[/url]

Thanks ?
Robin.

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