Would be convenient if this worked and returned a new ComponentArray with just the x and y components, ComponentArrays 0.15.11:
julia> using ComponentArrays
julia> c = ComponentVector(x=rand(2,2), y=rand(3), z=4)
ComponentVector{Float64}(x = [0.08932677188438709 0.2039248385682888; 0.7932786495449815 0.9448910346464564], y = [0.8857236834484066, 0.3657104827001233, 0.7234530317203763], z = 4.0)
julia> c[[:x,:y]]
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching _maybe_view_axis(::UnitRange{Int64}, ::ShapedAxis{(2, 2)})
Fwiw this works with scalar components eg if c = ComponentVector(x=2, y=3, z=4)