The XML module in Phobos

[language_fan]

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:38:36 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe thusly wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:23:50PM -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> But *why* use or make another one when the Tango one is already
>> excellent? :(
> 
> Copyright.

There are most likely several issues that prevent the reuse of that code. 
First, the indentation, module boundaries, and naming conventions may 
differ (tabs vs spaces, 4 vs 8 spaces, camelCase vs foo_bar etc.).

Next, does it use the slow object oriented approach like the rest of 
Tango (and unlike Phobos, which uses a very lightweight procedural 
model). Are there any benchmark results that show the approach Tango uses 
is any good, i.e. more performant than the ones for Java and C++ (even 
with larger xml documents). If it is, then the idea can be copied to 
Phobos as well.

Finally, the copyright is a problem unless it is handed over to 
digitalmars. Otherwise it might get troublesome to sell D later for 
commercial use when Phobos becomes the Standard library for D 2.0.