Article:		Introducing E4X
Subject:		Prediction: It won't last
Date:		2007-12-01 10:52:35
From:		Kurt Cagle
Response to: Prediction: It won't last
Dan, I think that the minor stream of XML coming from the server will be giving way to a flood soon; there's just too much going on in the distributed server space to not expect that to happen. That doesn't obviate JSON as a delivery mechanism; there are places where JSON is generally the most efficient way of sending content, and JavaScript is geared towards JSON while e4x support for the most part still exists mostly in islands. However, I think of that if any database produced only one format (either XML or JSON) they are being foolish in the extreme.

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• Safari 3.0 {E4X & XQuery}
  2007-12-18 16:18:47 frederick.c.lee
  
  Greetings:
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