dxml 0.2.0 released

[rikki cattermole]

On 12/02/2018 10:02 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:54:48PM +0000, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> [...]
>> Everything you have mentioned is not in Phobos. Just because something
>> is 'good enough' does not make it 'good enough' for Phobos. In the
>> words of Andrei "Good enough is not good enough", we need to aim
>> higher to show what we actually can do.
> 
> And thus Phobos continues to let the perfect be the enemy of the good,
> and 10 years later std.xml will still be around, and we will still be
> arguing over how to replace it.
> 
> 
>> Personally I find J.M.D. arguments quite reasonable for a third-party
>> library, since yes it does cover 90% of the use cases.
> 
> As I have just said in another post, dxml itself does not need to be
> changed to implement DTD support.  It's perfectly possible to write a
> wrapper on top of it that *does* implement DTD support.  In fact, I dare
> say it might be possible to lazily switch from a thin wrapper over dxml
> to full DTD mode, so that end users don't even need to care about the
> difference if they don't care to.
> 
> As far as API is concerned, it could be as simple as something like:
> 
> 	auto parseXml(R, DtdSupport = dtdSupport.true)(R input) if (...)
> 	{
> 		static if (DtdSupport)
> 			return dtdWrapper(dxmlParse(input));
> 		else
> 			return dxmlParse(input);
> 	}
> 
> Then just note in the documentation that turning off DTD support would
> provide extra features X, Y, and Z (speed, slices, whatever). Then let
> the user choose.
> 
> Seriously, I would have thought something like this would be obvious to
> programmers of the calibre found on these forums.  I'm a little
> astonished that this would even be such a point of contention in the
> first place, since the solution is so simple.
> 
> 
> T

In other places it was said that it wasn't possible to build it on top 
of it.

But yes, I would be expecting an entry point like you described and is 
something that I mentioned :)

std.experimental.xml:
	- interfaces.d: interface Element {...}
	- entry.d: auto parseXML(...)(...) {...}
	- impl_subset:
		- dom.d
		ext.
	- impl_full:
		- entry.d
		ext.