XML D2.x parsing &

[Ary Borenszweig]

Brad Roberts escribió:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Brad Roberts<braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:37:38 +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> According to the documentation having &amp; in a tag will be turned to
>>>>>> &
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_xml.html#text
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I observe that this is not the case. And if an attribute contains &amp;
>>>>>> it is turned into &amp;amp; What is the best way to receive the same
>>>>>> output for both. The code that follows outputs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attr: What &amp;amp; Up
>>>>>> Elem: What &amp; Up
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *testfile.xml:*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Tests>
>>>>>>     <Test thing="What &amp; Up">What &amp; Up</Test>
>>>>>> </Tests>
>>>>> Clearly std.xml is buggy.  Correct behaviour would be
>>>>>
>>>>> Attr: What & Up
>>>>> Elem: What & Up
>>>>>
>>>>> The best place for bug reports is
>>>>>
>>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/
>>>>>
>>>>> Stewart.
>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3200
>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3201
>>> The xml parsing code in D2 could use some love and care.  It was originally
>>> written by Janice who seems to have dropped off the face of the planet.  It's
>>> little more than a first draft with serious performance problems and several
>>> important bugs.
>>>
>>> Anyone want to volunteer to invest some time in improving it?
>> I don't mean to shoot down the idea?  But Tango already has three XML
>> parsers which are, like, the fastest.  Ever.
>>
>> http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/04/xml-benchmarks-updated-graphs/
>>
>> I'm just saying, it'd seem like pointless duplication of effort with
>> such parsers _already available_.  If it could be relicensed, I'd say
>> that's the best route.
> 
> Relicensed and separable from the rest of Tango.  It's been way too long since I
> looked at that code in Tango to recall any of its details.
> 
> Basically I agree with you on this one. :)

Can't just phobos dissappear? :-(

Like... it must be the first standard library in the world that's 
developed by 3-5 people.