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    <bug>
          <bug_id>5381</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2005-10-14 03:07:23 -0700</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Support E4X</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2013-09-25 08:29:52 -0700</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WebKit</product>
          <component>JavaScriptCore</component>
          <version>420+</version>
          <rep_platform>Mac</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>OS X 10.4</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>Enhancement</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Arthur Langereis">arthur_webkit</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Nobody">webkit-unassigned</assigned_to>
          <cc>alex</cc>
    
    <cc>andersca</cc>
    
    <cc>bird0fprey</cc>
    
    <cc>cmarcelo</cc>
    
    <cc>electricnet</cc>
    
    <cc>emacemac7</cc>
    
    <cc>fclee</cc>
    
    <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>marcus</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>mrowe</cc>
    
    <cc>robin</cc>
    
    <cc>webmaster</cc>
    
    <cc>wiredearp</cc>
    
    <cc>xanthor+bz</cc>
    
    <cc>zoshe</cc>
          

      

      

      

          <comment_sort_order>oldest_to_newest</comment_sort_order>  
          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>22065</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Arthur Langereis">arthur_webkit</who>
    <bug_when>2005-10-14 03:07:23 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>JavaScriptCore should support E4X.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>32394</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Joost de Valk (AlthA)">joost</who>
    <bug_when>2006-02-13 16:04:50 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>Reassigning to webkit-unassigned, to make sure more people see this.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>32755</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Joost de Valk (AlthA)">joost</who>
    <bug_when>2006-02-15 13:44:01 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>Sounds like a valid request.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>64828</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Frederick C. Lee">fclee</who>
    <bug_when>2007-12-20 09:38:07 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>I&apos;m an OS X developer hired to add OS X support to a MS product, here in Silicon Valley, CA.  XML is the data vector between the two worlds.  I *NEED* E4X support in Safari.  

Firefox appears to be the ONLY browser that supports E4X:

var e = &lt;employees&gt; 
 &lt;employee id=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;name&gt;Joe&lt;/name&gt;&lt;age&gt;20&lt;/age&gt;&lt;/employee&gt; 
 &lt;employee id=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;name&gt;Sue&lt;/name&gt;&lt;age&gt;30&lt;/age&gt;&lt;/employee&gt; 
&lt;/employees&gt;; 
 
var names = e..name;  // get all the names in e 


Safari can&apos;t handle the above code.
Firefox/Mozilla can.

Apple claims Safari is the *best* browser.

WHERE&apos;S E4X?????

Ric.
fclee@mimosasystems.com</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>64840</commentid>
    <comment_count>4</comment_count>
    <who name="Mark Rowe (bdash)">mrowe</who>
    <bug_when>2007-12-20 10:56:31 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>Please leave the rhetoric out of comments in Bugzilla.  It detracts from the technical nature of the content.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>159305</commentid>
    <comment_count>5</comment_count>
    <who name="Marcel">bird0fprey</who>
    <bug_when>2009-10-30 06:37:57 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>Can someone outline a reason why this isn&apos;t a major priority?

e4x is the best thing to happen to JavaScript, especially server-side implementations, what are the politics behind it not being included? I guess I am trying to understand both, is it still not on the roadmap, and why not.

Thank you for your time,
Marcel</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>175877</commentid>
    <comment_count>6</comment_count>
    <who name="Robin">robin</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-30 04:46:05 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>Is there no way to vote on bugs? Why is support for the latest ECMAScript standard not higher priority - why has this still not been assigned to anyone?</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>188487</commentid>
    <comment_count>7</comment_count>
    <who name="Mark Rowe (bdash)">mrowe</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-06 19:44:28 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>*** Bug 34678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>193229</commentid>
    <comment_count>8</comment_count>
    <who name="Robert">zoshe</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-23 20:46:52 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>I to would like to vote for webkit to have e4x. It would be so much fun having it.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>306153</commentid>
    <comment_count>9</comment_count>
    <who name="Alex Milowski">alex</who>
    <bug_when>2010-11-08 09:14:22 -0800</bug_when>
    <thetext>Just for reference, this is ECMA Standard 357, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification, 2nd Edition (December 2005)

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>933018</commentid>
    <comment_count>10</comment_count>
    <who name="Anders Carlsson">andersca</who>
    <bug_when>2013-09-25 08:29:52 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>E4X has been removed from Firefox so I don&apos;t see the point in us supporting it, let&apos;s close this bug.</thetext>
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