e4x vs XPath: Which one to use when going with action script programming in Flex?

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Published on 2010-04-19T16:00:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 16:03 UTC
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e4x programming extension is native to Actionscript and makes sense to use it over Xpath or any other DOM interfaces. I would like to know from flex community if they had any bad experiences like performance, etc, or any other gotchas.

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