Learning to XML with D

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 11:39:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 09:15:54 UTC, Derix wrote:
>> So, I set sails to transform a bunch of HTML files with D. 
>> This, of course, will happen with the std.xml library.
>>
>> There is this nice example :
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_xml.html#.DocumentParser
>> that I put to some use already, however some of the basics 
>> seem to escape me, specially in lines like
>>
>>    xml.onEndTag["author"]       = (in Element e) { book.author
>>   = e.text(); };
>>
>> OK, we're doing some event-base parsing, reacting with a 
>> lambda function on encountering so-and-do tag, à la SAX. (are 
>> we ?)
>>
>> What I don't quite grab is the construct (in Element e) , 
>> especially the *in* part.
>>
>> Is it *in* as in http://dlang.org/expression.html#InExpression 
>> ? In which case I fail to see what associative array we're 
>> considering.
>>
>> It's probably more a way to further qualify the argument e 
>> were passing to the  λ-function : could someone elaborate on 
>> that ?
>>
>> Of course, it is entirely possible that I completely miss the 
>> point and that I'm overlooking some fundamentals, if so have 
>> mercy and help me find my way back to teh righteous path ;-)
>>
>>
>> Thxxx
>
> The documentation says:
>
> "Warning: This module is considered out-dated and not up to 
> Phobos' current standards. It will remain until we have a 
> suitable replacement, but be aware that it will not remain long 
> term."
>
> My advice is not to use it. I used it a while back, but it 
> slowed down my system (why I still don't know), and it is 
> permanently soon-to-be deprecated.
>
> If you wanna use D for XML parsing, see if you can find a solid 
> 3rd party library in D (have a look at Adam's github page: 
> https://github.com/adamdruppe/, he has some DOM and HTML stuff 
> up there).
>
> There is a new xml module in the review queue, but nobody seems 
> to care. I _think_ the reason why nobody really cares is that 
> most people in the D community don't like XML.

I added XML to the GSOC idea's page (see Phobos section), but it 
still needs a mentor.  Are you busy this summer?

http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas#Phobos:_D_Standard_Library