[challenge] To implement XPath 2.0 in D

[Olivier Pisano]

Le 14/09/2010 06:58, Russel Winder a écrit :
> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 11:19 -0500, Yao G. wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> For this. First we would need a better module to manipulate XML files than
>> the one in std.xml.
>
> The Python community seem to be gravitating towards using lxml which
> wraps libxml2 and libxslt.  If D can make calls to C libraries why
> reimplement the algorithms?
>
> cf. http://xmlsoft.org/
>
>

D has some features that can make a difference in terms of performances. 
The Tango D library is significantly faster than libxml2 for XML 
processing. Check out this link explaining why:

http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/12/why-is-dtango-so-fast-at-parsing-xml/