Phobos Proposal: replace std.xml with kxml.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Graham Fawcett wrote:
> On Mon, 03 May 2010 16:01:30 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Graham Fawcett wrote:
>>> The fact that libxml2/libxslt support not only XML parsing and DOM
>>> building, but also XSLT, XPath, XPointer, XInclude, RelaxNG, etc.,
>>> means that any homegrown library will be hard-pressed to cover the same
>>> range of tools and features.
>>>
>>> There are too many half-baked XML libraries in the world. No disrespect
>>> intended to opticron or anyone else; it just doesn't make a lot of
>>> sense to reinvent such a complex wheel (and believing that XML
>>> processing isn't complex is a sure sign that your homegrown library's
>>> design is incomplete!).
>>>
>>> Graham
>> I think what we need for the standard library is to take a solid XML
>> library licensed generously and adapt it to work with arbitrary ranges.
> 
> By "adapt" do you mean writing a wrapper for an existing library, or 
> translating the source code of the library into D? 
> 
> What constitutes a "generous license" in this context? (For what it's 
> worth, libxml2 is under the MIT License.)
> 
> Graham

We'd need to modify the code. I haven't looked into available xml 
libraries so I don't know which would be eligible.

Andrei