Mostly for the E4X stuff – gotta check it out in more detail at some point.
developerWorks: Create an Ajax mindreader application with E4X and Prototype, Part 1: Build the Twenty Questions infrastructure
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E4X works in firefox (Spidermonkey engine) and Rhino (JVM), which you can use in Eclipse Monkey. Here’s two other good intros:
An E4X presentation from Brendan Eich, creator of javascript.
Mozilla developer connection tutorial,
So it has limited applicability when it’s only Firefox though it looks like something that could make its way into the core Javascript language just like regex did. Thanks for the links to the intros.