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I've worked fairly heavily with e4X on the Mozilla...

2007-02-11T20:21:00.000-05:00

I've worked fairly heavily with e4X on the Mozilla side, and tend to agree with your assessment about the object method limitation. Typically, the only way around it is to build a wrapper on the e4X object itself:

var E4X = function(e4x,props){
var _E4X = this;
this.e4x = e4x;
for (key in props){
_E4X[key] = props[key];
}
}
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It's tempting to use the XML directly now with E4X...

2007-02-11T18:24:00.000-05:00

It's tempting to use the XML directly now with E4X, pass it around to the classes that need it etc, but I think there's still value in creating a strongly typed model that your application refers to.

If you ever decided to power your app without XML you'd be able to switch over without a global search and replace. You'd just need to modify the way in which your model objects were

If you have any time to make a benchmark I will re...

2007-02-11T14:55:00.000-05:00

If you have any time to make a benchmark I will really like to know how it costs to use directly E4X on little or huge structures.