std.xml should just go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/11 17:54 EST, BLS wrote:
> On 04/02/2011 04:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Cool. Is Michael Rynn willing to make a submission?
>
> He announced a while ago in d.announce. std.xml2 candidate.. A few weeks
> earlier (if am not completely wrong) he offers his implementation for
> phobos.

We need to improve the formalism of submissions to Phobos. The first 
successful instance of that is std.datetime - a model we should follow.

> Regarding ranges.
> - Ranges of ranges which are IMHO needed for any kind of non linear
> data-structures (say:everything which contains a node) seem to be very
> difficult to handle.

Feel free to discuss. (I'll note that that would only further my 
obsession with ranges...)

> -I could further argue that Steven is still using cursors in
> dcollections, but well, you already know that :)

Cursors are an addendum to ranges, not a replacement.


Andrei