std.xml should just go

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Nobody that I know of. If you want to discuss design here while working 
> on it, that would be great. I could think of a few high-level requirements:
> 
> * works with input ranges so we can plug it in with any source

The difficulty with that is if it's a pure input range, then the output cannot 
be slices of the input.

> * works with all UTF widths (statically selectable)
> 
> * avoids where possible memory allocation (perhaps by offering 
> incremental access a la joiner())
> 
> * avoids often-called delegates in favor of alias functions
> 
> * is familiar in concept to people who've used today's successful XML 
> libraries
> 
> 
> Andrei
>