Reflection?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Sclytrack" <sclytrack at idiot.com> wrote in message 
news:ia20oq$1rnn$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Instead of targeting doc files, could dmd create xml files
> for the purpose of runtime reflection, instead of trying to
> go to runtime reflection via __traits.
>
> You can archive these files together with the binary code.
> Create some sort of D package.
>
> I mean C (GNOME) is going with xml files for their introspection.
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gi/unstable/gi-gir-reference.html
>

What's the point of inserting a serializing->deserializing step into it?