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Native XML scripting

Via LtU, a link to Native XML Scripting in BEA WebLogic Workshop

It's no secret -- XML's popularity has skyrocketed, making it a significant part of our daily jobs. How much time have you spent in the last year pouring over XML-related specifications; learning new ways to create, navigate, and manipulate XML data; and trying to decipher and debug that XSLT or DOM code you (or that new guy) wrote a few months ago?

Have you ever stopped to wonder whether all these new XML concepts, processing models, and languages are really necessary? After all, you've been creating, navigating, and manipulating similarly complex data structures using objects for years. Isn't there some way to flatten the XML learning curve and simplify XML processing by leveraging your existing programming skills and knowledge?

Take heart. Several companies have been collaborating to create a technology we call native XML scripting to do just that. BEA is the first to include native XML scripting in their products, but you will be seeing a lot more of it. In fact, ECMA plans to include it in future versions of the popular ECMAScript language (a.k.a. JavaScript).

This article will review some of the challenges associated with existing XML technologies, introduce you to native XML scripting, and describe a powerful, but little-known way to use native XML scripting in BEA WebLogic Workshop.

Also see John Udell's comments

Ehud:

Making XML a native datatype is something we discussed in the past. This seems like something that's actually going to happen.

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