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Kirill Grouchnikov's discusses thoughts on native XML support in Dolphin. There are definitely some interesting items, but I really hope that Sun takes a LONG look at what comes from C# 3.0 (send someone to PDC guys!), and look at the current E4X. It was BEA after all that came up with E4X!

Even look at Groovy's XML builders and parsing w/ GPath.

I just want to be able to work with XML in a trivial way, instead of with the ugly mess of DOM/SAX/X APIs.

I like having a smart for() loop for XML, that is good..... but some of the "extends" stuff just looks more complicated than it needs to be.