Replacing std.xml

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 20:08:10 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> As long autoconversion is optional.  When parsing XML or JSON 
> or whatever, I generally only care about specific strings, and 
> sometimes don't want anything decoded at all.  Having decoding 
> done automatically before the event fires is a huge and 
> potentially unnecessary performance hit.  Not doing this 
> decoding automatically is what makes the Tango XML parser so 
> fast.

This makes me wonder what kind of optimizations a hypothetical 
ctXml could perform.