Learning to XML with D

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 14:09:51 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 11:39:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 09:15:54 UTC, Derix wrote:
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>> The documentation says:
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>> "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

Just for the record, I hate XML too, but it is VERY widely used, 
so good XML support is essential ... like it or not!