We need an E4X like XML parser for Java

So we could replace the ugly code blocks like

/*Get the value of attribute "id" of the first "account" element in the document */
NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("account")
Element account = (Element)nodes.item(0);
String id = account.getAttribute("id");

with something like

String id = doc.account[0].id;

Wouldn't that be cool?! Better than DOM, SAX, StaX or even XPath to some extent from a usability perspective. But it looks like this ease of use is reserved exclusively for the javascript developers for now :( .. Btw it looks like you can already do this in Ruby using REXML as explained in this excellent article.

Hope rest of the programming world would catch up soon...