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E4X: ECMAScript for XML #5929

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TomasHubelbauer opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 3 comments
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E4X: ECMAScript for XML #5929

TomasHubelbauer opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 3 comments
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML

This just surfaced on HN which reminded me that the last time I was looking into this, I was struggling to find any support data. There used to be an MDN page for this which I can't find anymore. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML#Browser_support chapter on wiki details current support: no support.

This is an ancient feature, deprecated completely. I am not sure if others will feel like this should be in CanIUse, but my first instinct was to go look for this there, hence this issue.
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BTW why was I even looking this up in the first place: imagine if this was being supported and we could have JSX (or close to JSX) syntax without bundlers! One can dream...

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Fyrd commented Jun 4, 2021

I think template literals already provides a lot of the magic JSX does... the Lit library in particular makes use of these for near-JSX-like syntax. Given that I'm not sure browsers will be interested in returning to ES for XML support.

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TomasHubelbauer commented Jun 4, 2021 •
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I'm not saying I expect browsers would. Just that I think this obsolete feature would be nice to show in CIU. You're right about available libraries, my day dream was specifically about native support though. 🙂

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