Status of std.xml (D2/Phobos)

[Justin Johansson]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Justin Johansson wrote:
>> Adam Ruppe wrote:
>>> I'm not terribly interested in it because I already wrote my own
>>> replacement: http://arsdnet.net/dcode/dom.d
>>>
>>> Mine is biased toward HTML, doing what I personally find useful, or
>>> mimicing what javascript in the browser would do instead of following
>>> the standard, but if there's anything in there that is useful to
>>> others, you're free to take it.
>>
>> Thanks Adam for replying.  I'm happy to take onboard contra-views
>> such as yours as well.  Naturally it is no point in putting in an
>> effort wherein there is no interest at large.
>>
>> Still, I'll wait for more replies on this ng before making any
>> decision whether or not to commit myself to a new "D2 XML" effort.
> 
> Clearly std.xml can't stay the way it is. I'm even thinking of removing 
> it preemptively in wait for another implementation.
> 
> If you want to work on something you enjoy, it seems like std.xml is a 
> good choice. If you want to work on the top most important item, 
> probably networking would come ahead. We badly need http and ftp 
> streaming libraries. I'm thinking libcurl would be a good choice as a 
> backend (not interface). For D integration, it would be great to 
> integrate networking with std.stdio.File - e.g. creating 
> File("http://xyz.org") would just connect to the thing and allow 
> streaming, ranges, everything. Adam Ruppe has a lower-level networking 
> protocol that also hooks into std.stdio.File, which would be very 
> important to have too.
> 
> But then it's often better to work on what you like, so don't look for a 
> landslide vote. Ford didn't work on a faster horse etc. Some things that 
> would be good to have in an xml library:
> 
> - should work with input ranges (not only strings)
> 
> - use aliases as lambdas if needed (std.xml's use of lambdas is nice, 
> just very slow)
> 
> - define templates for char, wchar, and dchar and then define one 
> working with ranges of ubyte that dispatches depending on the encoding 
> tag found.
> 
> 
> Andrei

Thanks Andrei et. al.  I'll get back to the topic after some sleep
and another day at the office tomorrow; it's way after the witching
hour now in my neck of the woods.

Cheers,
Justin