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Propogating a bit of Sun press hit:

InfoWorld: A key feature being considered for Dolphin is native XML data support.

I reported on a similar feature called E4X in the Rhino implementation of JavaScript 226 days ago.

While adding native XML support, it would also be nice to add native regular expression support (so that I don't have to escape all those backslashes when I write a regular expression in Java code.)